He said, she said, it said: I used ChatGPT as a couple’s counselor. How did we fare?

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Kat, a friend of mine who uses ChatGPT to weed out dating prospects, told me she found it pretty objective. Was I, as ChatGPT suggested, carrying a burnout level of emotional labor at this early stage in the relationship? “It might be true that you were doing more emotional labor [in that moment] or at the individual level. Loading…There it was again: I was stuck doing the emotional labor. In the end, I’d rather invest that time and energy — what ChatGPT might call my emotional labor — into my human relationships.