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The Brett Cooper Show

Reacting to UNWELL Throuples | Episode 147

The Brett Cooper Show

Brett Cooper

Society & Culture

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

For years, polyamory has been sold as enlightened and empowering. But now that the stories behind these relationships are going viral, even the internet is starting to question whether this “progress” is actually healthy. Join the Cooper Confidential Community to get Farm vlogs, Q&As, and ad-free episodes: https://cooperconfidential.com Sundays for Dogs: Upgrade your dog’s food without the hassle—try Sundays for Dogs and get 50% off your first order at https://sundaysfordogs.com/BRETT50 or use code BRETT50 at checkout. Grand Canyon University: https://GCU.edu/myoffer (https://gcu.edu/myoffer) #brettcooper #brettcoopershow #thebrettcoopershow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Guys, it is beyond time to stop trying to make thruples happen.

0:04.5

It is odd, objectively, it is weird, and just across the board, we need to stop excusing

0:08.8

people's bad decisions in the name of empowerment, because that is really what's happening

0:12.6

here. Now, I wish I had my whiteboard over in the new studio because keeping track of these

0:16.5

delusional women and their exes and their partners and their partners' girlfriends and

0:20.2

their partners' husbands, girlfriends and their partners husbands.

0:21.6

Like it is confusing.

0:22.6

Nevertheless, I will persevere.

0:24.6

And today we are going to break down the specific types of women who find themselves in these

0:28.6

relationships and how society at large still feels hesitant to normalize these relationships.

0:33.6

Thank God, it means there is a tiny little bit of sanity left in the world. Pollyamory might just be people's line in the sand.

0:39.9

Now before I put on my psychoanalyst hat, if you want farm vlogs, conversations about motherhood and family life, cookie reviews, all of that sort of thing.

0:48.5

That is all over at my subscription platform, which you can find at cooper confidential.com.

0:52.4

We built it from the ground up just for you guys. Nobody can de-platform us. Nobody can tell me what to say on there. So that is the home for all things exclusive, Brett Cooper. All right, so first up in breaking this down, we have the insecure women who are so desperate for love and approval that a man is essentially able to groom her into being okay with polygamy. And that is the story that is really going viral on social media right now

1:13.5

and why I decided to do this episode in the first place.

1:16.4

And it all revolves around somebody named Lindy West

1:19.7

and her new memoir and a New York Times interview that is breaking the internet this week.

1:24.1

So if you don't know if you were not privy to the feminist girl boss

1:28.4

buzzfeed era of like 2012 to 2016, that is really where Lindy West came up. She is a pretty

1:35.4

famous writer in this liberal ecosystem. Her claim to fame was her 2016 memoir, which was

1:40.3

later turned into a Hulu TV show called Trill, and the entire premise of that was her journey

1:45.0

to find love and success without having to conform

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