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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone please recap for me what is so bad about her relationship with Tyler? Aside from how she rushed into it? [/quote]

When they announced their relationship on the Glennon Doyle podcast, there were a lot of red flags. They described how they met in New York through their publicist in November 2021, followed by ~ 2 months of phone calls and texts. Remarked Tyler, "it was completely platonic."  He talked about how she was reading his book and he wanted feedback on it.

Then Tyler went on to say, "Jen and I, we have two very different lifestyles, that's the whole other thing. One day just casually, she drops the, 'What is this?' She went, 'Hi so what's going on?  I want to be very clear.  Do you talk to everyone like this?' "

Tyler's response:  "What I said was give it some time.  I'm for real you all, I was like, 'Can I have a minute?' "

Yikes.  So she clearly was feeling attraction to him during those two months of long phone calls, yet he seemed completely caught off guard by her question and asked "for a minute" to respond.  RED FLAG.  He had just remarked that it was "completely platonic" to him. This isn't a story of two people falling hard for each other.

Then Tyler quickly added, "Out of respect to Jen, it was only about 24 hours" before he responded. He then added, "I came back to her and it got real technical.  Listen, it got real clinical.  I came to her and I was like, "Okay, I feel like I may have some feelings for you.  All right, there's a couple of things you're going to need to understand.  My best friend is a girl, the person who I spend 98% of my time I'm with is another single woman who is my ride or die, and so you just need to know this, and coming into this that's not going to change because that's my best friend.  I'm surrounded by a ton of women."

^^ Red Flags again! Bright RED.

But no, she gushed how this was the best thing ever.  It just came across so desperate and one-sided, and there are continued examples of this dynamic in their public interactions since. It seems like a lopsided relationship in which she is more invested emotionally than he is. 
He probably benefits by piggy-backing on all her social media followers.

Of course, none of us really know the truth of their relationship.  But we know the truth of his words during the "big reveal" that felt very lukewarm, clinical and contractual, not like a man in love. She was driving it, not him. We also know that he is a 45 year old never-married man who told her that his best friend and women friends come ahead of her, and he wants her to know she's not going to get in the way of that. That doesn't bode well for their relationship.  During the podcast he also said, "I am so okay with anybody thinking I'm gay and she knows I'm super gay on paper."

The whole thing just felt incredibly contrived and full of warning signs. Sometimes he has a snarky, dismissive tone with her while she gushes in return.  I'm not sure she understands what a healthy relationship is.[/quote]

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