It's kinda like the weird open relationship stuff.

'Open relationships' are so fucked up. An acquaintance of mine whose wedding I went to a few years ago is now in an 'open relationship' with a much older married colleague. I suspect her husband either doesn't know or was somehow railroaded into accepting it. She's withdrawn from most of her friends, it seems, and the whole thing just feels like a trainwreck waiting to happen. She's the kind of person who goes home from work if she gets any kind of negative feedback so I can't wait until the whole thing blows up in her face, she gets pregnant, etc.

To me, it's so plainly dysfunctional and selfish, but her generation has been training to think this is just another letter on the Special Person Alphabet and that she needs to be her True Self to be fulfilled.