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Most of my clients find out eventually. Somewhere in the work, it comes up: the couples therapist sitting across from them has been divorced. Ten years, one marriage, and then the decision to stop. I don't hide it. But I used to wonder whether I should. The story of that marriage isn't the point here — maybe another time. What matters is that I came to this work already carrying it. At first it didn't weigh much. Divorce is common enough now that I assumed it was just a fact