Key points

Sex and the City was groundbreaking; it celebrated the lives of ambitious single women.

It highlights how women can choose relationships from strength rather than desperation.

Critics love to hate on Carrie and company. and their Sex and the City reboot, And Just Like That... I get it: the show is over the top. The fashion is fabulous, but it looks more like costumes than clothing. And the economics of their lives are wildly unrealistic. But that was always true.

When Sex and the City first aired, I was starting to practice as a therapist. Like many, I was captivated by the adventures of Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte, and Miranda. The series became, in a way, my “co-therapist.” Many of my clients at the time were young professionals—single, childless in their 30s, not

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