How comfortable
would you feel about sharing the things you and your significant other fight
about?
There aren’t many
things that stay hidden these days, since social media has become a gateway
into the most intimate parts of people’s lives. But Honey isn’t exploitative; it
doesn’t seek to embarrass. Rather, it seeks to normalize the fact that couples
fight and reminds us that, hey, it’s not the end of the world—neither is it the
end of the relationship.
Honey delves
deep into those things that make couples tick, through the commentary of
normal, everyday people. And because these are real stories told by real
people, the audience is able to briefly become a part of the relationship
themselves and even root for and relate to these couples as they share the
stories that made them realize why they wanted to stick around in a
relationship.
Host Julia
Meltzer does a fantastic job of keeping the tone lighthearted and fun, while also
asking the questions that matter, often about how couples go about dealing with
the hardships that arise, which could be an extremely challenging and
vulnerable thing to do when you know you have thousands of people tuning in to
listen.
Vulnerability
seems to be a recurring topic with guests speaking honestly about how they felt
and reacted to their significant other treating them or acting in a certain
way. And these things aren’t always all bad. Often times, as couples talk
through significant moments in their relationship, they make breakthroughs and
realize things about the other that they never considered and we as the
audience can also stand to learn a lesson from it. It’s basically a free
therapy session all around, which is always nice.
In one episode,
a guest talks about attending the funeral of his boyfriend of a few months’
father, how he manages to not make the funeral about himself, and of course,
they take a break to discuss who’d be Madonna’s spiritual successor (which,
spoiler: the consensus is Rihanna). That moment, for him, made him realize how
comfortable they’d felt with each other and how right the relationship felt, even at such an early stage.
Most
importantly, Honey allows us to break down that outdated idea that we shouldn’t
talk about our problems, or that we should uphold the idea that to the outside
world we should pretend that our relationships are without flaws. The bottom
line is: couples fight. Sometimes it’s catastrophic. It can cause both parties
to critically examine their behaviors and decide if staying together is worth
it. Other times, though, it’s just a silly row about bellybuttons.
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