Dead To Me, a new Netflix show, is basically about the guilty a woman feels for accidentally killing someone's husband and dealing with how to make it up to her. As the story unfolds, however, the show explores two troubling romantic relationships between a man and a woman.

Though the plot was extreme in the case that in included murder and evading the law, the themes of abusive relationships and infidelity are commonplace and very much realistic. Steve was emotionally abusive to Judy, filling her with guilt and remorse that was nothing of her own doing, as he was constantly gas-lighting her. Ted cheated on Jen and shamed her for her mastectomy, resulting in her thinking she was guilty of his death.