🎧: Behind the scenes of couples therapy

You’re receiving my Tuesday podcast because you’re a paying subscriber of Maybe Baby. Thank you! To listen in your preferred app, click “Listen in podcast app.” Then it should automatically populate there every week. Hey! Today’s episode is inspired by how earnestly I cried at the end of the second season of Couples Therapy last week (which just dropped on Showtime). If you’re not familiar, Couples Therapy follows actual couples as they go through a series of sessions with a genius therapist named Orna, who also sees a therapist throughout the show. It’s eerily intimate, occasionally tense, and surprisingly hopeful. Today I have two guests! A couples sex therapist name Ciara who also binge-watched and cried after Couples Therapy, and my friend and writer Meghan Nesmith, who loves going to couples therapy with her husband and has written about it before. This ep is for anyone! Whether you’ve seen the show or not. We do talk about the show a little (no spoilers) but not so much that you couldn’t follow along. Mostly we talk about other stuff: what’s difficult about couples therapy, what’s been happening with couples in the pandemic, how to de-escalate a fight, how to deal with a “desire discrepancy,” who could benefit from couples therapy, etc! Hope you enjoy,Haley This month a portion of subscriber proceeds will be redistributed to Transgender Law Center, a trans-led organization grounded in legal expertise focused on community-driven strategies to liberate transgender and gender-noncomforing people. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit haleynahman.substack.com/subscribe