I have the same dream as anyone else: For an erudite woman with chunky jewelry to rock me to my core with casual but tremendous truths. In the new Showtime series “Couples Therapy,” my dream has come true.

The show, premiering Friday at 10 p.m., is a documentary that follows four couples’ sessions with Dr. Orna Guralnik over the course of several months. After 40 seconds, I was positive every couple featured on the show should break up. After all nine half-hour episodes , I’m less sure.

“You have to really want the relationship and love your partner in a way that moves you to transcend yourself,” Guralnik tells one husband and wife pair. They’re both deflated on her couch, positively wrung out by their endless routine of secret-keeping and resentment, of pushing each other away and then being hurt anew by the distance. While Guralnik delicately avoids answering the husband’s question directly — Do you think we should give up? — her response deflates them further. They both weaken before our eyes, and it’s one of the most intense, complex moments I’ve ever seen on TV, two people realizing simultaneously “I don’t think I love you enough.”

Scripted shows have of course given us plenty of insightful, probing therapists and complex, resistant-to-change patients. The power here is the reality of it all, the rawness and ridiculousness of the human condition. On the first episode, one exasperated man proudly proclaims, “I am the easiest person to deal with.”