It's a totally innocent question, just typical small talk.

So, what do you do?

But if you're a couple's therapist, you might just dread it.

You know, inevitably somewhere I get cornered on long runs, long rides.

Anytime on like an airplane, someone finds out that I'm a marriage therapist,

and it is immediately just like a loss of the next two hours of my life and not getting paid for it.

That's Laura Heck.

And not only do people dump their problems on her when they find out what she does for a living, they also make assumptions about what her life must be like.

For example, she's also a sex therapist.

And so their assumption is that, well, if you're a sex therapist and you must be having the best sex ever.

Or you must be so, like, wild and, you know, like, you play with all the colors of the rainbow.

You have a dungeon, you know, in your house.

Totally.

My red room, my playroom is like amazing.

Adult playroom, the APR.

But so.

I didn't know there was an acronym for that.

That's amazing.

Yeah, yeah.

Absolutely.

I think I might be the only one that uses it.

And I have to confess when you said that I thought annual percentage rate instead of

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