This week on Worth the Weight, Sarah and I had what I’ll generously call our “first fight” — sparked by women announcing their engagements…to their AI boyfriends. (Yes, rings included. Yes, they bought them themselves. No, I can’t make this up.) What started as me defending lonely women from TikTok mockery quickly spiraled into a bigger conversation about empathy, trauma responses, AI psychosis, and why ChatGPT will never be a stand-in for therapy — no matter how many “letters from Sam” it writes me when I’m grieving.
From there, we went down the rabbit hole of a layered (and unsettling) story about a woman who claimed she fell in love with her psychiatrist, complete with delusions, doxxing, and the internet gleefully fanning the flames. It made us ask hard questions about responsibility, loneliness, community, and why the internet loves enabling meltdowns for sport.
But it’s not all heavy. We also talk about what it means to truly feel seen, why female friendships are the real love story, and even discover a site called RentAFriend.com (spoiler: we’re intrigued).
It’s one part cautionary tale, one part therapy-adjacent intervention, and one part love letter to finding real connection in an AI-saturated world.
