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- I know how to handle my feelings.

- Oh, you mean just bury

them and let them fester?

- It's called being realistic.

- Realistic?

You just live in this

f***in' state of denial.

So yeah, okay, maybe

that's realistic for you.

But to the rest of the world,

it just looks like you're

constantly refusing to deal.

- No, it looks like there goes a person

who knows how to be appropriate

with their emotions.

Not what you've become, which is some,

honestly, sad, sniveling,

whining excuse for a woman.

- What is wrong with you?

- I'm sorry.

It's, this is why I didn't

wanna tell you tonight.

Because I knew that it would be the end.

- The end of what?

- The end of your freedom.

Because for the last

I don't know how long,

you've seemed freedomy for the first time

in a long time.

- I do, I feel that, too.

- That's such bullshit.

- I feel free.

It's not bullshit.

- That is bullshit, Anna.

Because you think this

is about a record deal?

Did you really think we were

gonna get a record deal?

This is about you and me.

- I know.

- Do you?

Because all that I see from here

is someone who has been

walking a tightrope.

And I've never seen a tightrope

walker more excited to fall.

It makes no sense to me.

- I can feel myself changing, Ben.

- Oh, that is so crazy...

- I know that

about myself.

- For you to say.

It's like, you hate change.

Every time someone brings

up change, you shut down.

- Oh please.

That's classic coming from the guy

who sits in his f***ing underwear all day,

just creating corporate

bullshit for a paycheck.

Like, where's the old you?

Where's the f***in' old you,

who used to make sh*t

that meant something?

- I am trying.

I am trying.

- Define trying.

I mean, you can't keep a job

for more than three months.

- People don't get me.

- Oh please, Ben.

This emo teenager sh*t

is so f***ing tired.

You know what, I think the

thing is everyone gets you,

and that's the f***in' problem.

- Anna, you're an Uber driver.

You're an Uber driver

with a failed book deal.

We're f***in' losers.

I don't know if you think there's

some kind of magical thing

that's gonna come and change that for you.

But this is it.

This is f***in' it.

- If we had been able

to have a baby.

- Don't.

- If we had had that baby.

- Not having that baby was a blessing.

- How could you say that?

I want you to leave.

- F***.

- And don't f***in' come back.

Dammit.

- Hey Dave.

- Hey.

- Do you think I could

spend the night here?

- Yeah, yeah, come on in.

- Thanks.

- Good morning, Benjamin.

- Good morning, Dave.

Good morning.

- Hello.

- Hi.

- This is called snuggle therapy.

The human touch is very healing.

- Well, thank you.

- I used to practice

snuggling with my parents

in the aftermath of their divorce.

Now, the patient's instinct

is to fight the snuggle.

And I assure you, Benjamin, a

snuggle ought not be fought.

- Give snuggles a shot.

- I do, my phone is ringing,

so I do have to get it.

- I'll get it.

- No, it might be Anna.

And I have kind of tight

pockets in these pants.

I'm just gonna get up.

Hi mom.

- Will you get your ass over here

so I can take care of you, please.

- Okay, all right.

I'll be over in a bit.

- Mother love is the deepest

love of all, isn't it?

- Yeah.

- I know I'm not perfect.

But it's like, she's

just moody, demanding.

Obsessive and hypercritical.

- That sounds about right.

' Yeah.

About a year ago, we had a miscarriage.

- What?

Oh honey, I'm so sorry.

- And I don't know, I feel like it's just,

maybe we're just too broken to fix.

- You know I had two miscarriages

before you were born?

- No, I did not know that.

- Yeah, it was horrible.

Really bad.

I mean, I thought I was never

gonna be able to have kids.

And.

And then, of course, you know,

the second your dad and I

stopped trying, we had you.

- Well, how did you guys get through it?

- We fought.

We fought like crazy, like cats and dogs.

For years.

Couples fight, what can I tell you?

You guys have been together for so long,

it's almost impossible not to.

- No, we really fight.

- Yeah.

- And about dumb sh*t.

It's exhausting.

- Yeah, I know.

You know what?

Let me give you a little

bit of advice about women.

All right?

And I know what I'm talking about.

Okay, so, hormonally,

we are just completely

different creatures.

We might as well be

completely different species.

You see us as overly

emotional, and that's true.

We're constantly juggling a

lot of feeling and anxieties.

We have difficulty separating

ourselves from our problems.

Do you understand?

Like we're constantly looking

for the connective tissue

to find a solution, we obsess.

We search for emotional cues

so that we could figure out the

meaning behind the unspoken.

It's not pretty in there.

Problem is, we expect you to be the same.

Now, you, you could take

pleasure in simple things, right?

A basketball game, a video game.

Really, games of any kind.

- That's true.

- And this ability to have

these simple pleasures,

it allows you to

compartmentalize your feelings

in a very different way.

You could do what women

only dream of doing.

You could shut your mind off.

And when your minds are turned off,

you forget to do things, right?

You forget to do the dishes.

You forget to answer a

question when we ask it.

- Anna calls it the 30 second delay.

- Uh-huh.

And then we come at you

harder and stronger,

'cause we want your respect and attention.

'Cause we don't understand

your need to shut down,

your need to daydream.

To us, it's lazy and selfish.

- And that makes us so angry.

- Mm-hmm, I know, that's the aggression.

That's the testosterone.

And then we get hurt.

That's the estrogen.

- And then we get

divorced, and that's life.

- Not necessarily, Benny.

You know, these are all things

that I really wish I understood better

before your father died.

Couples experience loss all the time

in all different ways.

It's how you understand that loss,

how you navigate it

that makes a difference.

- This feels a little reductive.

- Yeah, I'm making

generalizations, obviously.

But I'm basing them on

my marriage, my clients,

my friends' marriage, yours, it seems.

I can't speak for the gays.

- Or the trans community.

- No, I'd only be basing

that on that show on Amazon.

- So good.

- Yeah.

- It's so good.

- But I will say this.

Even though you think of us

as constantly talking about our feelings,

we're holding so much in.

Our minds never stop.

Always analyzing, worrying.

I think if women could get more physical,

and access our rage that way,

a lot would change.

I'm a cannonball

I'm a grenade unreversible

Burnin' through my head now

Gotta get it out somehow

Get it out

Hey hey hey

Get it out

Yeah, I feel all right

I'm gonna do anything I like

Burnin' through my head now

Get it out, get it out

Three, two, one

One, two, three

- Anna.

Anna.

Anna.

- Hi.

My name's Anna.

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