Pondering a tree change. Investing in anti-wrinkle eye serum. Lopping off long tresses into a chic bob. These are the things you expect to find your peers doing once they hit the big 3-0. So, imagine my surprise when I looked around and observed my friends doing neither – instead, they were committing to couples therapy, of all things!
Like many in my age group, I have dabbled in individual therapy at different points in my life; I am fluent in the therapy lingo of attachment styles and self-care that proliferates on Instagram; and I have even worked at a mental-health organisation. And yet I still associated couples
