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How Relationships Actually Work - by Gretta Duleba

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On March 17th, 2016, I decided to become a relationship therapist. It was an incongruous choice, given that I had previously spent seventeen years in software engineering. Computer nerds are not typically known for their social and emotional skills, and I was an undiagnosed autistic to boot. The decision snuck up on me. I’d left my promising and lucrative career in Big Tech the previous year, looking for something a little closer to the heart of the human experience. I was discussing my options with my own therapist, a pivotal figure in my life, when I blurted out that I thought her job sounded pretty fascinating, but that I didn’t think I’d qualify. “Why not?” she asked. “I think maybe I’m too crazy myself to be a therapist?” “Oh, Gretta,” she sighed. “Just wait until you meet the other people in therapy grad school. You are more than sane enough.” And so it was decided. I made a short list of grad programs by lunchtime and enrolled in the necessary prerequisite online courses that af

How Relationships Actually Work After six and a half years of looking into it, I've got it all figured out. Mostly. Gretta Duleba Oct 17, 2022 482 12 62 Share Hello and welcome! If you want to get future posts delivered to you, you can subscribe: Subscribe I. Who am I to Say? On March 17th, 2016, I decided to become a relationship therapist. It was an incongruous choice, given that I had previously spent seventeen years in software engineering. Computer nerds are not typically known for their social and emotional skills, and I was an undiagnosed autistic to boot. The decision snuck up on me. I

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