If we still loved each other | Controlling husband, captive wife

There is something heavy and strange in Louise Sigouin’s office this spring. And I’m not talking about the impressive Viking horn from which Gino, our delivery salesman with the Krishna quilt, sips his sweet mead.

A couple in crisis If we still loved each other of TVA generates a staggering amount of murderous comments on the interwebs. It is, of course, Stéphanie, 35, and Keven, 36, together for 18 years (sorry?), who have unpacked all the scabrous details of their toxic relationship, punctuated by adultery and jealousy.

She is pitiful, this Stéphanie de Saint-Amable, forced into the role of “tradwife”, this stay-at-home mother from another era who devotes herself entirely to her husband and her two little daughters. It’s Stephanie who was deceived and controlled by her partner Keven, but she’s the one absorbing the venom from social media.

Why does she stay, damn (insert insult here)? Doesn’t Stéphanie want to light Keven on fire and shout at the door?

Because Keven slept with Stéphanie’s childhood best friend, who is also the godmother of their youngest daughter Magalie. Because Stephanie watched the extramarital sexual act by logging onto the surveillance cameras in the garage where Keven works. And because Stéphanie read all the vicious text messages that Keven exchanged with his mistress, where he denigrated her and ridiculed her physical appearance.

Despite this string of inappropriate behavior, no one calls Keven an asshole on Facebook. It’s Stéphanie who we judge. The victim. For the record, Keven always stopped Stephanie from wearing makeup, buying fashionable clothes and going out with her friends. The idea of ​​Stéphanie becoming a massage therapist tortured Keven: impossible to let her touch bodies other than hers, frankly!

Child of the DPJ and abandoned by her own drug addict mother, Stéphanie swallowed, lowered her head and tolerated the intolerable. Her mother-in-law also brainwashed her: a wife stays at home, alongside her man, rain or shine, she repeated to Stéphanie.

It almost looks like an episode ofWith a beating heart, in real version and not scripted by Danielle Trottier. This is also one of the greatest dangers of the daily life of TVA, which offers the People’s Court a ton of extremely intimate information, which we enjoy dissecting and overanalyzing.

Depressed and bullied at high school, Keven tries to win Stephanie back with a “swim spa” and “I love you”s that are as forced as they are uncomfortable. When Keven goes grocery shopping, just once, and cooks a basic dinner, everyone raves: wow, what a good, caring father! Let’s stop this charade. For 18 years, the domestic burden has rested entirely on the shoulders of Stéphanie, who has never received a medal for her loyal services.

And who praised Stephanie for preparing lunches when Keven was drinking excessively and freezing his face with cannabis capsules? To quote Louise Sigouin, Keven is an “all dressed” addict.

My heart almost stopped when Stéphanie said that she thought about hanging herself in the garage and that Keven would have replied “chi-ching, I’ll have the insurance”. Let’s see. SO.

Between a game of frisbee golf and a visit to the cider house, this is not a light and funny edition of If we still loved each other, far from there. The couple formed by Christelle, 39, and Gino, 48, are also swimming in the undertow of depression. Drunk in a chalet, Christelle, an internship assistant at a Montreal university, ran through the snow and threw herself into an icy lake, possessed by negative thoughts. There’s no real joke to be made about it, unlike Pierre’s ass-washing toilet and Lee’s primal scream last year.

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As for Gino, a fan of electric guitar and vaping, he was verbally attacked and belittled by his aunt, who raised him when his mother was incapable of doing so. Gino dreams of decamping to Gaspésie, cuddles his four cats and hopes that Christelle will one day take the initiative in sexual relations.

In the meantime, Gino and Christelle observe and comment, live from their small balcony, on what is happening in the street. Like in a play by Michel Tremblay. Once upon a time in the east, it seems.

Both 30 years old, Guillaume and Kathy, from Mirabel, brought a more fun, more relaxed side to the show. But that was before Guillaume, who runs a hedge trimming business, revealed his serious anxiety problems to Louise Sigouin, as well as his marijuana use, which allowed him to take “a break” from his head. which turns like a hamster wheel.

And like Christelle, Kathy, a house painter, was off work. In short, nothing fun here either.

Thank God, Madeleine, 73 years old, Michel, 72 years old, in a relationship for 16 years, have arrived in our living rooms. While riding a tandem, which gave poor Michel’s fork ache, holy blessing!

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It was super touching to see them watching their morning shows, in bed, eating berries. Michel and his selective deafness are the stars of this second edition of If we still loved each other.

It was the good Michel who said to Madeleine: “I agree with everything you say, except when you are not right. » A reply worthy of Buddha or Gandhi.

And it was Michel who popularized a brilliant portmanteau word to describe Madeleine when she speaks with her “European expressions”: snobleness.

Snob and noble, this is definitely my favorite duality.