Given those stakes, Felder says, “it’s a terrible shock when you have to accept your own fallibility.” (This is all the more true, he notes, for his A-list clients, the ones who are accustomed to authority and control. “People believe in their own infallibility in a ratio that’s consistent with their power in life,” he says. “As you get higher, you get more and more people around you saying you’re right, and you get less and less used to being contradicted or being wrong.”) Even if you can accept your fallibility in general, the specific crisis of a failed marriage is a stunningly hard pill to
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