08/23/2026
I wouldn’t try to improve their communication because this is emotional abuse.
She suspected her husband was cheating and repeatedly told her:
“I’m not cheating.”
“I’m not having an affair.”
“There is nobody else.”
She was being gaslit.
Then, when directly asked if he’d stepped outside the marriage, he admitted YES.
His defense? Apparently the women weren’t in New York.
Sir.
Infidelity isn’t negated because you crossed state lines.
Then instead of saying, “I lied. You weren’t imagining it,” this Fat Joe/Andrew Tate love child started debating the geography and technical definition of cheating.
That is psychologically destabilizing!
Your brain starts twisting itself trying to reconcile what you knew, what he told you, and what you now know is true.
Meanwhile your nervous system is screaming:
GIRL. SOMETHING IS WRONG.
Then he says he doesn’t care what she does when he’s gone because “what I don’t know won’t p**s me off.”
That’s retroactively rewriting the relationship agreement after violating it.
Sir, you were distributing community peen across multiple jurisdictions. Case closed.
And this is why couples therapy isn’t automatically appropriate for every distressed couple.
When emotional abuse, coercion or manipulation are present, this is no longer simply a communication problem.
Couples work can actually give the abusive partner more information about the other person’s vulnerabilities.
And HER work is grieving the relationship, who you thought he was, AND the version of yourself who kept sitting at the table waiting for someone to develop empathy because you explained your pain beautifully enough.
Girl.
GET UPPP.
There’s no way this Thomas-the-Train-Humpty-Dumpty-Pillsbury-Doughboy-belly-having ass is explaining to me that technically the cheating doesn’t count because it happened in another jurisdiction.
And I don’t care if he was Tucker from Lioness.
The therapist wouldn’t have to terminate couples therapy.
My U-Haul reservation would.
Sometimes closure isn’t getting him to understand.
Sometimes closure is realizing: I understand enough.