Therapist Was Divorced

in 2023 my therapist told me to divorce my husband. she had never met him. praised me, told me to cut off my family, told me i was “special”. than i need Him. recommended her to all my friends. she told her to break up with her boyfriend on the very first call. that therapist was divorced.

A woman wearing headphones sits in a moving car and narrates how her therapist advised her and others to end their relationships, despite never meeting her husband; the final reveal is that the therapist herself was divorced. The escalating confession is presented as dark, absurd relationship humor, while Sufjan Stevens’s melancholic indie-folk song “Mystery of Love” makes the story feel dramatically tragic and funnier by contrast. EN: A woman wearing headphones sits in a moving car and narrates how her therapist advised her and others to end their relationships, despite never meeting her husband; the final reveal is that the therapist herself was divorced. The escalating confession is presented as dark, absurd relationship humor, while Sufjan Stevens’s melancholic indie-folk song “Mystery of Love” makes the story feel dramatically tragic and funnier by contrast.

How much sorrow can I take? Blackbird on my shoulder And what difference does it make? This love is over Shall I sleep within your bed? Hands upon my head May breathe my last breath

♪ Sufjan Stevens — Mystery of Love (From "Call Me By Your Name")

• @antichirst / 22022 2026-03-19