The Brett Cooper Show Reacting to UNWELL Throuples | Episode 147
Mar 7, 2026
A critique of polyamory and throuples, examining stories behind viral relationships. An analysis of pressure, grief, and emotional harm in arranged open marriages. A look at influencer throuple reveals friendship fractures and parenting worries. A pattern emerges linking insecurity, attention-seeking, and unstable family outcomes.
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Rejecting The Glorification Of Throuples
- Brett Cooper argues society should stop normalizing throuples and polyamory because many cases are objectively unhealthy and confusing.
- She frames polyamory as often excused as "empowerment" while masking bad decisions and emotional harm.
Lindy West Agreed To Nonmonogamy During Personal Crisis
- Brett recounts Lindy West's omitted detail: her husband required an open marriage for them to reunite and marry.
- West agreed while grieving her father's death and fearing loss, later portraying the arrangement as empowering in a memoir.
How Vulnerability Enables Relationship Coercion
- Cooper analyzes the power dynamic: West's husband reframed his inability to be monogamous as immutable, shifting responsibility onto her.
- She emphasizes how vulnerability during grief made West accept conditions she later regretted.