Renowned psychotherapist Esther Perel has weighed in on Reese Witherspoon ’s viral commentary about the decline of romantic comedies, suggesting the Oscar-winning actress may be onto something far more significant than nostalgia.
In a video posted to her Instagram account on October 15, Perel (@estherperelofficial) said the waning popularity of romcoms has left a cultural gap in how younger generations learn to navigate desire, flirting, and intimacy. Her clip has since been viewed over 317,000 times.
"There’s a clip going viral of Reese Witherspoon where she suggests that the decline of the romcom is leaving us impoverished in terms of understanding the plots of dating , of desire, of flirting," Perel told her 2.3 million Instagram followers. "That without those stories to inf

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