All he wanted to talk about was my parents’ divorce. Like all adults, he thought everything was always about my parents—about how I was affected by them, or reacting to them. When I persisted in talking about Ivan, the psychologist said that I was in an imaginary relationship with an unavailable person, because I was afraid to be in a real relationship with an available person. This struck me as a statement devoid of meaning. What “available person” was he talking about? Where was that person?
