Gosh where do I even start..... Billie is a stay at home wife of 2 kids (5 yrs & 6 months possibly) she has the life most women dream of and a loving husband named Cooper. Postpartum Depression coupled with a dose of mid life crisis took her back down memory lane to her bad boy ex Brad who she met back in college (she was on track to getting her PhD). Brad and Billie basically just had amazing sex everywhere at anytime of the day. Outside of that their relationship had there ups and downs but overall wasn't a healthy relationship. Billie has a journey section on her laptop where of course she typing out all of these freaky thoughts about her ex, Cooper finds it then boom ish goes down hill from there.
My problem first lies with Billie, she's extremely immature. As husband and wife there should be no major secrets such as your wild past. If she felt she wasn't being satisfied sexual she should have spoken up period! Having kids changes the freedom of sex as well as the energy to do so for both parents. Both of these two needed marriage counseling before they actually got married as well as Individual therapist after marriage. A therapist would have helped Billie work out her issues with her Ex Brad. She goes through majority of the season making bad decisions that not only effect her mental but aids in the destruction of her husband and children structure. My second problem lies with Cooper, after reading his wife's journal he should have communicated with Billie why this was so hurtful instead of bottling it in as well as descussed her past either together or with a therapist. Cooper goes out of his way to try and do all the things her ex would do to make her fall in love with him again, At that point the marriage was done in my opinion. Cooper did some self destructive ish as well like searching up Brad to compare via google, followed him to the gym and even followed him to the the shower to compare dongs. All if this kinda broke my heart, when you're on the receiving end of cheating you'll always why why you weren't good enough so to see Cooper crumble like he did was heart breaking.
Some things should have been put in place like healing first before starting a relationship, Alot of people will tell you the best way to get over someone is to get on top of somebody else. This is not true it's the same as drinking, or doing drugs... Your just numbing it but as soon as you've come down reality sets in. Billie should have completely healed emotionally and mentally before even considering dating her and Brad were completely tangled up and it's hard to just detangle in a month. Cooper was a rebound and 8 years later he's paying the Consequences unfortunately. Despite Sasha (Billies wild best friend) telling her to work on her marriage and stick by her man Billie finally convinces herself that cheating is the only way to rid herself of this demon Cooper watches on his phone as billies GPS leads straight to Brad's apartment.