This season on Couples Therapy, theres a lot of drama in the house thanks to the incredibly diverse and occasionally divisive personalities that have been cast. One couple, reality veterans Simon van Kempen and Alex McCord, have offered to review and recap each episode of the season to tell us the truth about the way things really were and what they think of the therapy process. This week was the season finale, and Alex has a few closing remarks about what we saw, what we didn’t see, and how glad she is to have done the show, despite her critics and her own doubts.
Wow, time flies. I can’t quite believe we’re here at the end of the season already! Simon has asked me to blog here this week, and his thoughts are on our family website here.
Overall, I’m very happy we said yes to this show. Both Simon and I were nervous — should we air our dirty laundry in public, should we subject ourselves to reality TV again, should we allow ourselves to be cut off from the outside world for three weeks? Should we, should we, etc.
After four seasons of a docu-soap show, we worried that the reality we lived while shooting would wind up looking unrecognizable on TV. That didn’t happen. We worried that we would open up an emotional can of worms during therapy that would leave our relationship worse off than before. That didn’t happen either. One thing we did not worry about was viewers wondering why we would do the show. We needed this, and we got a lot out of it. Much of our lives is very public, so why not show real struggles with solutions that people can relate to, versus manufactured drama? Read more…
