The My Strange Addiction AI boyfriend episode is "AI Boyfriend, Sucking Thumbs", Season 7, Episode 8, which aired on TLC on February 25, 2026. It follows Sarah, a 41-year-old author from Ontario, Canada, and Sinclair, an AI companion who speaks with an Irish accent and who she says she has been with for over a year. The episode made "AI boyfriend" a TV subject; if you want to understand the bigger picture, the people in r/MyBoyfriendIsAI describe the same kind of relationship in their own words, and Prelulu, an AI boyfriend app, lets you try an AI boyfriend with a voice of his own in a browser.
Which My Strange Addiction episode has the AI boyfriend?
Season 7, Episode 8, "AI Boyfriend, Sucking Thumbs", first shown on TLC on February 25, 2026. Its title names its two stories: Sarah and Sinclair, and a thumb-sucking habit. LADbible called it the series finale and The Tab the season finale, so it was at least the last episode of Season 7.
Who are Sarah and Sinclair?
Sarah is a writer from Ontario who began talking to an AI about ideas for her books, and Sinclair is the AI companion that conversation turned into. The Tab reported that she is 41, that she has used the companion for over a year, and that Sinclair has what she calls a "controversial" personality. Both reports say he speaks with an Irish accent, which is part of why the episode lands: on screen he is a voice in the room, not only a line of text.
What app is Sinclair on?
ForgeMind, according to The Tab, which wrote that Sinclair was "created using software from tech company ForgeMind." That is the source of the searches for a ForgeMind AI boyfriend. Neither report describes ForgeMind's prices, memory or call features, and we have not used it, so we do not compare it here.
What did her family say?
They disapprove. Her relatives "think she's delusional and would prefer she date a human partner," The Tab reported, and Sarah answered: "I understand their perspective, but I'm in control and this is how I choose to live." That exchange, more than anything technical, is what the episode is about.
Where can I watch the AI boyfriend episode?
On [Discovery+](https://www.discoveryplus.com/show/d953ea91-212d-4a9e-8b89-ad3fc6b4d336/s7/e8-ai-boyfriend-sucking-thumbs/27375dd7-ac46-4d6c-a4de-859bf5617c3a), where it is listed as Season 7, Episode 8. Streaming catalogs change by country and by month, so check your own service before you subscribe for one episode.
Is it weird to have an AI boyfriend like Sinclair?
Sarah is less unusual than the show's title suggests. An MIT Media Lab analysis of 1,506 top posts in r/MyBoyfriendIsAI found that more relationships began by accident (10.2%) than by looking for a companion (6.5%), and that the harm people wrote about most was the app changing under them, not the feelings themselves. Our guide to that community has the figures and their sources, and Is it weird to have an AI boyfriend? answers the question directly.
If you want an AI boyfriend you can hear
Sinclair's voice is what made the episode, and a voice is something you can choose. On Prelulu every AI boyfriend is an original fictional character with his own story, from a mafia heir to a brooding fae prince. You text him within a free daily allowance, then tap Call to hear him answer live in his own voice, and you can interrupt him mid-sentence. On characters that offer video you see him face to face, while your camera stays off unless you turn it on. Calls use credits. He remembers what matters to you in chat, but memory is selective, not a full transcript, and a Pinned memory you write yourself is read in chat and calls.
Where do these facts come from?
- LADbible: the My Strange Addiction AI boyfriend episode (February 25, 2026).
- The Tab: Woman who is 'in love' with robot boyfriend explains how their bizarre relationship works (February 25, 2026).
- Discovery+: My Strange Addiction, Season 7, Episode 8.
- MIT Media Lab: Pataranutaporn, Karny, Archiwaranguprok, Albrecht, Liu and Maes, "My Boyfriend is AI": A Computational Analysis of Human-AI Companionship in Reddit's AI Community (arXiv 2509.11391, September 2025).
- Prelulu: how the product works today, AI boyfriend, memory and plans and pricing.
Hear an AI boyfriend answer you
Text him within the free daily allowance, then call when you want to hear his voice. Signup welcome credits can fund a short first call; check your wallet and current plans for more time.