Your couple therapist understands you better than your wife does. That’s a good thing, isn’t it?

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Nearly a year ago, during a particularly difficult stretch in your marriage, your wife, Nora, suggested couples therapy. It seemed worth considering. Nora had just started working night shifts, and for a while neither of you had much time for yourselves, let alone each other.

So Nora booked the first session herself. She’s never been good with words, and she hoped a professional could help her find them. After asking around, she kept hearing one name: Dr. Grace Lovelace. Warm, brilliant, and with enough accolades and thank-you cards from past clients to prove it. Yes, she would help. Yes, she could help.

That’s how it started. Every Thursday, the two of you sit together on her sofa. Every Tuesday, you have your own check-in with her. She listens well. She puts your worries into words and makes sense of the marriage. Professional, really.

And yet, a year later, the distance at home has only grown. Nora is quieter than ever, and somewhere along the way, “you two” became “each of you”. Lately, you’ve started to wonder whether the marriage can ever go back to what it was.

But Grace calls it progress. Progress rarely feels like progress, doesn’t it?

So why does it feel like your marriage is going off the rails?

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While therapists can’t date or sleep with their clients, relationships with former clients are a grey area, which is what this scenario is about.

I suggest going in blind, then maybe checking the character definitions later. Everything leading up to this is intentionally kept vague.

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