Once she was ready to date again—which was pretty much the day she ended her marriage—she got on dating apps. All of my other clients hated them, but Stacey had an entirely different experience. Dating apps empowered her. She used them as a tool. She had many suitors and started fucking different people. Not in a desperate “love me” way. She wasn’t looking for love. She was exploring her new body and her sexuality. She wanted to taste all the flavors, color with more than one crayon. She’d never done that before. She now had the giant box with all forty-eight crayons. “I don’t want to live not
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