And just like watching The Biggest Loser might make you fatter, watching MAFS could actually damage your relationship. "[Melissa] has been subject to gaslighting, emotional manipulation, isolation, and countless other TEXTBOOK signs of a controlling and or abusive relationship," write the petition's creators. "), this season the experts appear to have done some googling of their own and we've heard it thrown about on the couch. While purportedly opposed to this strategy of conflict management in a relationship, the entire MAFS machine is set up as one toxic ping-pong game of emotional point-scoring. But should the risk of damaging our own relationships turn us off this kind of car-crash TV for next season?

Source: New Zealand Herald April 17, 2021 00:45 UTC