# very healthy relationships shown in media **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 7, 2015, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-healthy-relationships-shown-in-media/736876 "2015-11-07T04:28:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MoodIndigo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2015, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-healthy-relationships-shown-in-media/736876/21 "2015-11-08T01:28:10Z")
Another vote for the family relationships in Madam Secretary. The family in Black-ish is also a good one, and quite believable. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2015, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-healthy-relationships-shown-in-media/736876/22 "2015-11-08T02:07:59Z")
All 3 couples on Modern Family. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2015, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-healthy-relationships-shown-in-media/736876/23 "2015-11-08T02:18:56Z")
Turk and Carla on Scrubs. Heck, Turk and JD on Scrubs. ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2015, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-healthy-relationships-shown-in-media/736876/24 "2015-11-08T07:52:07Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > All 3 couples on Modern Family. Modern Family has some of the most dysfunctional relationships I’ve ever seen on television. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2015, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-healthy-relationships-shown-in-media/736876/25 "2015-11-08T07:56:37Z")
The How to Train Your Dragon TV series and movies have a pretty reasonable and healthy relationship between Hiccup and Astrid. It’s strange to see at all on TV, let alone in a kids’ series. ---
**Author:** ![Barrett\_Bonden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5e9695/32.png) [@Barrett\_Bonden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barrett_Bonden)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2015, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-healthy-relationships-shown-in-media/736876/26 "2015-11-08T13:18:00Z")
Wash and Zoe in Firefly ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2015, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-healthy-relationships-shown-in-media/736876/27 "2015-11-08T13:28:29Z")
Oh, yeah. “A lot of people don’t… get… me and Zoe.” ---
**Author:** ![carlb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carlb/32/5930_2.png) [@carlb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlb)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2015, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-healthy-relationships-shown-in-media/736876/28 "2015-11-09T22:50:06Z")
“Have you ever been with a warrior woman?!” ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2015, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-healthy-relationships-shown-in-media/736876/29 "2015-11-09T22:58:26Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > Having a very healthy relationship doesn’t mean no one will ever cheat. Healthy relationships also run into problems. You measure their healthiness according to how these problems are resolved. Not in my opinion. If one partner is cheating, something is usually lacking. ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2015, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-healthy-relationships-shown-in-media/736876/30 "2015-11-09T23:07:41Z")
Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, from _Hart to Hart_ ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2015, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-healthy-relationships-shown-in-media/736876/31 "2015-11-09T23:15:03Z")
The Thatchers in **LIfe Goes On** and Patty and Graham Chase in **My So-Called Life**. All were flawed but realistic human beings in a good relationship. ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2015, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-healthy-relationships-shown-in-media/736876/32 "2015-11-09T23:28:09Z")
> [@Noel\_Prosequi](#): > > Gomez and Morticia Addams. Passionate; loving; love each other because of their weirdness, not despite it; adventurous; not consumed by kids’ needs and issues. > > Great couple. > [@Smeghead](#): > > Bob’s Burgers has always impressed me with the simple way they depict a family dynamic that is weird and funny, yes, but also very solidly healthy and respectful. It’s about a family where everyone loves each other and no one ever makes a big deal about it. Yes. These two. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-healthy-relationships-shown-in-media/736876/33 "2015-11-10T02:13:34Z")
> [@Shalmanese](#): > > Modern Family has some of the most dysfunctional relationships I’ve ever seen on television. For reals this! None of the relationships are healthy. Funny, yes. Healthy? not even close. ---
**Author:** ![Nayna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ebca7d/32.png) [@Nayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nayna)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-healthy-relationships-shown-in-media/736876/34 "2015-11-10T03:34:21Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > All 3 couples on Modern Family. I was going to say this, too. I love all three couples; don’t find them dysfunctional at all. ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-healthy-relationships-shown-in-media/736876/35 "2015-11-10T05:50:24Z")
Going _way_ back, I seem to recall that Roseanne and Dan had a pretty healthy marriage and family life. They made mistakes, but that was the point, that they were all very human. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-healthy-relationships-shown-in-media/736876/36 "2015-11-10T06:16:29Z")
Jenny and Vastra on _Doctor Who_. Healthy, if not entirely human… ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-healthy-relationships-shown-in-media/736876/37 "2015-11-10T08:20:33Z")
Jean and Lionel Hardcastle in the British sitcom [As Time Goes By](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105943/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_37). It’s a good depiction of a couple who really love each other, and show it in the way they treat each other. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-healthy-relationships-shown-in-media/736876/38 "2015-11-10T15:26:58Z")
Helen and Stanley Roper Gladys and Abner Cravitz Marge and Homer Simpson ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-healthy-relationships-shown-in-media/736876/39 "2015-11-10T15:34:07Z")
Inspector Murdoch and Dr. Ogden in _Murdoch Mysteries_, once they are actually married. They are depicted as a loving, respectful and equal partnership - almost too much so. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-healthy-relationships-shown-in-media/736876/40 "2015-11-10T15:37:23Z")
The thing that Medium a watchable show was the relationship between Patricia Arquette and Jack Weber. Despite the fact that it was a ridiculous show based on a “real” psychic the relationship felt real. They had problems but worked them out as a couple. I bailed on the show before the end so maybe he became a serial rapist during sweeps and I didn’t see it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-healthy-relationships-shown-in-media/736876.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-healthy-relationships-shown-in-media/736876.md?page=3)