Most of them are. The females are violently anti-maile. Most of the males are pantiwaists.
I was lucky that my counselor when my marriage broke up was a retired Army Colonel, an airplane driver whose wife had dumped him while he was in Viet Nam. He pulled me through a really tough time and thanks to him, my son and my lawyer, I came out with custody of my son and minimal alimony!
After my son and I moved to a different state, we both went into further counseling. My son’s counselor kept pushing him to let his abusive Mother back into his life. Mine, a woman, kept interpreting everything I said as “hatred of females”.
I would say that the pyscho services have an unhealthy levening of pyschos!
Glad that you got out of the tough time with your son and not in complete financial devastation. You were lucky.
When my ex and I went to “marriage counseling” (this would have been about 1992 ?), one of the main issues was that my ex would spend lavishly to entertain his friends at bars and restaurants, often to the tune of $1,000/month or more. We did not have that kind of money, and I scrimped and scraped to be able to afford shoes for the kids, etc. We both worked full time, and incomes were similar.
The counselor (male, if it matters) told me that I needed to come up with a budget to try to make the finances work, so that this issue could be reduced. I handled the bill-paying, etc. (due to the ex would never have paid a dime more than the minimum or a day before a payment would be late).
So he gave this issue over to me as being solely “my problem”.
We didn’t keep going to counseling much more after that.