Working with couples and families offers the analyst a fresh perspective on our working assumptions regarding “real” relationships, that is how interaction with significant others is heard and absorbed within the psychoanalytic relationship. In this paper, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1962) provides a springboard for investigating how extra-analytic attachments can shed light on: (1) our implicit psychoanalytic value system; (2) current perspectives on the nature of the self; (3) the structure of narrative in psychoanalytic treatment; and (4) the basic framework of the analyst-patient relationship.