Looking for a short story I read once
I hope the flair is okay. I read a short story in a science fiction anthology a while ago and I can't find it again so I'm hoping the people of reddit can help me out. It was a while ago so my memory of the story is sparse, but it was about a man who lived in some sort of rehab town, separated from the rest of the world for people who wanted to make their lives better through self improvement. He had a therapist and a girlfriend, and the story started when his girlfriend got a new assistive pattern recognizing robot. At first he didn't like the robot but then he grew to enjoy talking about the robot and it lead to him coming to realizations about himself and about what it meant to get trapped in a pattern. I think his girlfriend's name started with an M. Or maybe that was the robot's name. I really hope somebody can help me find this story again, I think it was by someone who I consider to be a classic sci fi author, but there are so many stories between them all that I can't find it.