Anyone watching the couples therapy programme on ch4?

[Longcovid21]

Anyone else think Mau is a complete fucking narcisist and therapy with him is completely pointless? Some. Of the things he is saying. Textbook narcisim. The therapist doesn't seem to see it?!?

[prickferrari]

Me and dh have been watching this and we find ourselves holding each other by the end of the show. It's so sad but you can see how much love there is between most of the couples, it's just their histories and childhoods tripping them up. I've only got a few left to watch of S2, I think the last one I watched was Tashi beginning to explore her aggressive dad and how difficult it was for her partner to validate her, and then the therapist talking to her therapist after about how her partners inbuilt sexism/patriarchy makes it hard for him to see Tashi's dad as abusive. It's so good to watch and makes you realise how some people are quite scared of therapy because they don't want to see the truth.

[BiscuitLover3678]

@LittleOldLadies

Just finished season 2. I'm not feeling 100% today so I think I'm a bit over emotional but I sobbed at the end!

So happy to hear there will be a season 3!

Me too! So emotional

[LantLint]

Why so much anger and swearing by posters? I watched the show but this doesn’t seem a sane thread to comment. Off for a shower ick!

[LittleOldLadies]

Just finished season 2. I'm not feeling 100% today so I think I'm a bit over emotional but I sobbed at the end!

So happy to hear there will be a season 3!

[BiscuitLover3678]

@hb76h

I am 6 minutes in and I cannot stand that man! I am actually repulsed and quite angry! Won't stop me watching the rest though, I must admit.

He almost put me off too

[Appletree21]

@mathanxiety thank you for your kind words. It's something I try repeating to myself to stay sane, but it's nice to hear it from outside again too. ((:

[hb76h]

I am 6 minutes in and I cannot stand that man! I am actually repulsed and quite angry! Won't stop me watching the rest though, I must admit.

[BiscuitLover3678]

It’s fascinating and I hope it encourages more couples to go to couples therapy as there is still a real stereotype that it involved taking sides and lying on the couch.

[BiscuitLover3678]

@HollowTalk

I think the therapist really couldn't handle Mau - well, who could? There was a scene where he was roaming around her office, touching her things, and she was so uncomfortable. She was trying to talk to Annie but couldn't concentrate. It was just like having an animal circling you - all you can do is watch them. I think he's actually a really dangerous man.

I agree. I’m curious as to her thoughts on him. From what I know you shouldn’t do couples therapy in those circumstances.

I much preferred season 2.

[HollowTalk]

I think the therapist really couldn't handle Mau - well, who could? There was a scene where he was roaming around her office, touching her things, and she was so uncomfortable. She was trying to talk to Annie but couldn't concentrate. It was just like having an animal circling you - all you can do is watch them. I think he's actually a really dangerous man.

[mathanxiety]

@Appletree21, excellent post. Been there, bought the T shirt.

They cross lines both large and small all the time. They choose kind, capable, loyal and conscientious people - polar opposites of themselves - whose life force they feed on.

[HollowTalk]

@MrsVillanelle

This isn't real though. I watched it a couple of months ago and wasn't sure, but it quickly became obvious it was all staged.

It wasn't staged at all. She's a therapist and they were clients. Obviously editing was involved as they were there for several sessions, but it wasn't scripted.

[BiscuitLover3678]

@MrsVillanelle

This isn't real though. I watched it a couple of months ago and wasn't sure, but it quickly became obvious it was all staged.

What do you mean? It is real. They were real couples.

[MrsVillanelle]

This isn't real though. I watched it a couple of months ago and wasn't sure, but it quickly became obvious it was all staged.

[EL8888]

Mau was a nightmare. Especially hilarious when he said what a great therapist he would be

[Soffit]

@MightyMoMo

@Soffit This is the article about their business closing www.inquirer.com/food/milk-honey-market-west-philadelphia-closed-workers-health-coronavirus-20200601.html

This subreddit has his supposed posts but I can't remember his username www.reddit.com/r/CouplesTherapyShow/

Season 3 trailer has just been released!

Ooh, thanks , so many treats! 🤗

[MightyMoMo]

@Soffit This is the article about their business closing www.inquirer.com/food/milk-honey-market-west-philadelphia-closed-workers-health-coronavirus-20200601.html

This subreddit has his supposed posts but I can't remember his username www.reddit.com/r/CouplesTherapyShow/

Season 3 trailer has just been released!

[OrlandointheWilderness]

Just put this on. It confused me utterly for a few mins as I couldn't tell if it's real or acted! This guy is a dick.

[HollowTalk]

@MightyMoMo

I believe I read that Annie and Mau are a legitimate couple. They owned a restaurant which closed during the pandemic and there was a news article which verified this.

There was a Reddit account claiming to be Mau saying he and Annie are now getting divorced. Not sure if it truly was him though

They are all couples. They're not acting. The therapist is a real therapist as well. Presumably they got free treatment in exchange for being filmed.

[Appletree21]

Interesting how some of you wonder why anyone would want to be with Mau. I am divorcing someone like him and just never saw it. I am an honest, loyal (and clearly naive) person so when he said he was sorry and he really loved me, I believed him. When he said I misinterpreted what he said about me and it wasn't demeaning, I believed him. (Now I know that's tactic 1. in the narcissist handbook: gaslighting). When he said that really I had said something in the wrong way, or at the wrong moment so it was completely understandable he was angry with me, I did some soul searching and tried finding ways to give him feed back or ask him something at the right moment. After 18 years of marriage I felt like I was walking on egg shells all the time. Now that I know all the strategies he uses they seem laughably simplistic, and I just feel sorry for him. When you are in it, there's so much at stake! Your children (because he will poison them against you), your past history, your own sanity...after all who would want to believe they have been misled and lived a fantasy for 18 years?!

Also narc's choose their victims carefully. They choose loyal, responsible, empathetic people. In week 2 of our relationship my ex got horribly drunk at a party. I drove him home while he puked all over my car. The next day he was on his knees saying how embarrassed he was, and how he had so much work stress etc.

Together we cleaned the car and I believed every word. Now I think...what a great way to test my empathy and capacity to forgive.

That's how you fall for it.

[Soffit]

@MightyMoMo

I believe I read that Annie and Mau are a legitimate couple. They owned a restaurant which closed during the pandemic and there was a news article which verified this.

There was a Reddit account claiming to be Mau saying he and Annie are now getting divorced. Not sure if it truly was him though

I'd love to see any links you have. I know I am completely over invested in the relationship of two strangers!

[MightyMoMo]

I believe I read that Annie and Mau are a legitimate couple. They owned a restaurant which closed during the pandemic and there was a news article which verified this.

There was a Reddit account claiming to be Mau saying he and Annie are now getting divorced. Not sure if it truly was him though

[Soffit]

I only sensed a believable bond in the last episode when they were riding the Subway and he lent her an airpod. It almost communicated a sense of them being a too-groovy twosome who were completely detached from social norms for so long that they honestly had no idea how they would be perceived on TV.

[Soffit]

Reddit, I think. It does makes more sense than not to be because their individual/joint outlook is almost too surreal to be credible and she seems too 'normal' to have passively endured the freakery and hedonism for decades.

[BiscuitLover3678]

@Soffit

Mau is addictive. Absolutely fascinating. I was sad to read that Annie and Mau may actually have been actors scripted in to make it interesting. Nobody IRL in Philadelphia recognized them.

Where did you read that? That’s a bit freaky!