Couples today are navigating expectations no previous generation had: two-working-parent households, emotional labor, trauma awareness, shifting gender roles, and attachment needs. No one taught us how to do this. But you can learn.

A trauma-informed analysis of the “performative male” through Lily Allen’s West End Girls, Vice’s critique, Vogue’s viral take on boyfriends, and how fragile masculinity, attachment wounds, and shifting gender dynamics affect modern relationships. Learn how these patterns show up in couples therapy and how to heal them.