How to Deal With an Artificial Intelligence Partner

You walk past your partner’s laptop and see an open chat. However, it’s not with a friend or a coworker. It’s with an AI, and it isn’t small talk. Discovering an artificial intelligence partner can feel like a new kind of heartbreak. If that’s where you are right now, you’re not alone.

In this video, Amanda Pasciucco, licensed marriage and family therapist and AASECT-certified sex therapist, explains why AI emotional cheating hurts so much. She also shows how to talk about it without a fight.

What You’ll Learn About an Artificial Intelligence Partner

In this episode, Amanda answers the questions couples ask most. For example:

Is a connection with AI the same as lying and hiding?
Why would someone look for this elsewhere?
Does it mean something is missing in your relationship?
How do you bring it up without a fight?
Can your partner keep using AI while you rebuild trust?

Why It Hurts, and Why It Happens

First, Amanda explores what’s really underneath the hurt. Often, it isn’t the content of the chats. Instead, it’s seeing your partner feel heard by something else. Then she flips the view to explain what the person using the AI may be looking for, and why it doesn’t automatically mean the relationship is dying.

How to Start the Conversation

Next, Amanda shares how to open a hard conversation gently. She explains why the first three minutes matter so much. In addition, she offers five questions that help uncover what the AI was really giving. Finally, she shows why this is two separate problems, not one.

Watch the Full Episode

Whether you found the messages or you’re the one using the AI, this video is for both of you. So press play, then share your biggest takeaway in the comments.

Go Deeper With The Other Partner

If you want to explore this topic on your own time, Amanda wrote a whole book about it.

The Other Partner: A Therapist’s Guide to AI Companions

Get it on Amazon

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