Clearly I'm in the minority here, but I came away from the show with nothing but hatred for Jennair. I realize Mark was a selfish, immature jerk, probably going through a mid-life crisis, and it is always shitty of people to have affairs, but he is not the first person to have an affair and leave a long marriage. I doubt Jennair's controlling and obsessive behavior started only when she found out about the affair. This is a woman who sewed microphones in his suit jackets and put tracking devices on both their cars. If the genders were reversed, and this was a man doing this to a woman, I would absolutely classify that as semi-abusive stalking behavior and be terrified (I'm a woman).
As for going to the marriage counselor, I kind of get why he did that. I don't think she ever would have let the marriage end, and I bet he was hoping that the counselor would help a crazy person see some reason. You can't force someone to stay in a marriage and Mark had a right to get out and divorce her. Her whole life was that marriage and I doubt it was a picnic to be married to someone that obsessive, controlling and troubled.
I know that show was being told from Mark's point of view and maybe trying to generate sympathy for him, but even if he is the biggest louse on earth (and he might be!) I still came away from it thinking that Jennair was terrifying, evil, controlling, and really not at all different from abusive men who kill their wives when they try to leave them. Fuck her.
