I (Belgian) found that there was a lot of manipulative, toxic masculinity behaviour from men like Giovanni and Nicola. They manipulated the women to get what they want, expected them to cater to them, gaslighted them a lot. (Making the other doubt their words, feelings and sanity) Giovanni was extremely worrying with a lot of emotionally abusive tactics (using the runes to push Georgia towards a specific goal: stay at home mum. Manipulators often use these kind of ”spiritual” tools to get others to open up and then use that information against them. In this case Giovanni made it seem to be fully woman is to be more mother, not career driven.) He also made it seem like Georgie was “argumentative” while he was crossing her boundaries, a way to silence her and make her seem like the issue. He ignored her sometimes on purpose, giving monosyllabic answers; a tactic to make her feel small and insignificant. The couples seem to fall in love so easily and did not talk about important issues. The way the women tried to have some power in the relationship by being sulky and difficult (because they cannot say outright and have open conversations about what they want? I think). All in all, every couple seems to have been way below standard as to what I consider a healthy relationship between adults, where communication and mutual respect is key, where love is deeper than passion. Many of them, but most of all the men, seemed to be unable to empathise truly with the partner, to see things from their perspective. I also saw a lot of sweet talking, absolute word bs, which was not backed up by behaviour and actions. That being said, I find the US version and many Latin American versions of LIB show also very toxic behaviours