Today, Tyler Perry's Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor opens in theaters. Starring the gorgeous Jurnee Smollett-Bell (plus, Kim Kardashian!), it tells the story of a marriage counselor who finds herself dealing with her own troubled relationship when she meets a sexy investor who makes her want to cheat on Vince from Friday Night Lights her boring husband. It's kind of disheartening to think that even relationship professionals, with all their wisdom, still have their own troubles in love, right? Show My brilliant friend Erin, a social worker in Boston, isn't solely a marriage counselor, but she does have a lot of experience helping her clients deal with marital stress, drama between couples, and infidelity. Don't worry, I know she would never ever get herself into trouble like in the movie, because she is married to another dear friend of mine. But I was curious to get her professional take on the scandalous problems she's dealt with in her line of work. Her two-part advice on dealing with temptation: "Firstly, if you're an adult, you clearly know the difference between morally right and wrong, and if you're faced with a questionable situation which can impact your relationship, you need to remove yourself from that situation. Guys, if there's a hot girl at the bar and you're drooling over her, pack up your blue balls and go home. Ladies, if a co-worker asks you to get drinks after work and you feel a little uncomfortable, come up with an excuse and just don't go. Even if you're already neck-deep in a problem, it doesn't mean you can't begin changing your reactions. If you're feeling tempted in some way you may want to seek out some individual therapy to work out those feelings and determine if they're 'real' and warrant maybe splitting from your current partner, or if it's strictly temptation and how to go about dealing with that (and your clearly weak constitution).Secondly, as cheesy as this is, honesty is the key—the earlier the better. The earlier a problem is named in a relationship, the easier it is to fix (or abandon); the more secretive you are about it, the more complex the situation gets, and before you know it you've got a second family living in the next town over and you're screwed. Secrets in families tend to make those families sick. Which means, all this crap comes tumbling out when a loved one all of a sudden had a heart attack and is hospitalized and then all the family dirty laundry is aired." Um, yikes! Her job scares me. Even if the situation isn't quite that dramatic, I love her advice for anyone facing attraction they shouldn't act on (and who hasn't at least a little?) that even if you're already in a questionable situation, you still have to power to stop and change. It's like the relationship equivalent of diet advice: Just because you had one doughnut doesn't mean you have to go ahead and have the full dozen. Step away from the temptation. And just because I had to share, a super-crazy story from her line of work: "When I used to work back in Detroit, I dealt with a lot of married dudes using prostitutes and getting into trouble once that happened. Once, a guy ended up unconscious in the hospital after a prostitute drugged him because he didn't have any cash in his wallet. We had to call his wife, who was pretty unhappy, as I recall." OMG, ya think? What do you think of my friend's professional advice and/or that terrifying story? Are any of you seeing Temptation this weekend? On infidelity: 10 Things He's Thinking Before He Cheats The Rules of Hating the Other Woman (Yes, There Are Rules) A Major Warning Sign That He May Be Cheating, From an Expert Who Would Know Photo: Courtesy of Lionsgate  After catching an afternoon showing of Tyler Perry’s Temptation on its opening day, I left the movie completely annoyed. I wasn’t just annoyed by the sophomoric dialogue, or the highly-predictable-yet-highly-improbable plot. And I wasn’t just annoyed by the poor editing and overwrought melodrama (though all of those things gave me plenty to be annoyed by). What sent me over the edge was the heavy-handed punishment of a female character who happened to be interested in sex, and the implication that the rest of her days on Earth were doomed to loneliness and regret. Oh. And HIV. Warning: Major movie spoilers aheadTyler Perry’s Temptation is a so-called “erotic thriller,” which explores what happens when a married woman pursues an extramarital affair. The main character, Judith (played by Jurnee Smollett-Bell), is a small-town girl who moves to Washington, D.C., with her childhood-sweetheart-turned-husband, Brice (played by Lance Gross). Six years into their marriage, Judith grows restless and feels unappreciated, bored with Brice’s 10-year-plan and annoyed that he’s been too aloof to remember her birthday. Enter Harley, a wealthy — like, really really really wealthy — social media entrepreneur, who’s looking to invest in the matchmaking service where Judith works. Glances are exchanged, banter is traded, pickup lines are dropped, and it’s not too long be Judith is resisting-but-not-really-resisting Harley’s advances. Eventually, Judith leaves Brice at home to gallivant around town at black-light parties and snort coke with Harley. (Because that’s what women do when they have affairs with rich men. They go to black-light parties and snort coke.) But let me fast-forward and tell you how this story ends. Brice, upset that his wife has left him, seeks solace in his friend Melinda (played by Brandy Norwood). Melinda’s been on the run from a stalking ex (who we easily figure out is Harley), and Brice asks her if she thinks she’ll ever find love again. There’s an awkward pause, and then Melinda reveals she’s HIV-positive. “So no,” she concludes. She will not find love again. Because in Tyler Perry’s world, people living with HIV are doomed to live a life of lovelessness and solitude. When Melinda shares that Harley is the ex who gave her HIV, Brice panics. Suddenly, he must save Judith. Judith must be saved from the HIV! Brice races to Harley’s apartment, finds Judith beaten up and left in a bathtub, and carries her home (not without throwing Harley through a window and punching him a few times). The future isn’t so bright For a moment, there’s a glimmer of hope — maybe the broken couple will reunite through this trauma, maybe Brice’s undying love for Judith will heal her battered face and gloss over her bad decisions, and maybe the pair will settle into married bliss once again. Except… Tyler Perry catapults us an indeterminate number of years into the future, showing a hobbled, bespectacled and homely Judith limping to Brice’s pharmacy to get her HIV medication. As she’s leaving, we meet Brice’s new (unsettlingly-younger) wife and young son, a picture-perfect snapshot of what Judith could have had, had she not messed around and gotten the HIV. We’re left with a shot of Judith walking away, “to church” she says, hobbling down a nondescript sidewalk in D.C. It’s all entirely too insulting. The vilification of women and HIV victims I could spend days talking about the way Tyler Perry vilifies and punishes women with any speck of ambition, education or sexual desire in his movies (and I have). But the “shocker” HIV storyline in “Temptation” was egregiously repulsive, implying that people who live with HIV (as over one million people in the U.S. do) are either a) being punished for some sort of iniquity, and/or b) will live a loveless, lonely life of despair and regret. The worst part is that Temptation treats Judith’s HIV infection as a modern-day version of leprosy, and presents her hobbling with the disease as a reasonable resolution to the story, a justified sealing of her fate. Note that Brice remains uninfected, and that Harley simply vanishes, presumably flying away in his jet to infect another unsuspecting young woman. Perry’s message is targeted specifically at black women — live the way a good little Christian girl should, or be eternally damned with disease. I can’t say it enough. It’s insulting. Share:
Who does Brice end up with in temptation?We then go back in time, where Judith and her childhood sweetheart Brice are growing up through the years together, as soulmates. The two later get married and move to Washington, D.C. to start their own life together.
What happened to Harley temptations?Ironically, nothing happens to Harley—the man who gave her HIV. He's never mentioned again after Judith's rescue. There are no consequences for his spread of the disease. Presumably he disappears with his talent, wit, charm, and money to seduce another woman.
What year did Tyler Perry Temptation come out?March 29, 2013 (USA)Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor / Release datenull
Is Tyler Perry Temptation on Netflix?Watch Tyler Perry's Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor | Netflix.
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