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The original was posted on /r/aitah by /u/Extension-Device-839 on 2023-08-11 12:34:23.

I [39M] and my wife [36F] are obviously going through a less than awesome marital phase, and she’s suggested that we try couples counselling.

Other than the fact that it sounds absolutely horrible, I’m pretty sure there’s zero point.

My wife is pretty much perfect. She’s smart, kind, funny, well liked by everyone who meets her. She’s a professionally successful doctor, and I’m an unemployed freelance photographer. I also have a slight drinking problem, which has thrown a metric fuckton of gasoline on our marriage.

So I don’t really see how counselling will help, because I think I’m too obviously the dead weight in our marriage. And I feel like counselling is only gonna offer her an opportunity to break up via a third party, which kind of pisses me off as a concept.