At the end of it he said, “I want to notice something, and I want you to hear it as an observation rather than a criticism, because we’re going to be doing this for a while.

“You have given me a very detailed account of a woman’s behavior and almost nothing about your own.

And the account you’ve given me is accurate — I’m not disputing any of it.

But you’ve come here to work on being a father to a seven-year-old, and we’ve spent forty minutes on a seventy-year-old.

“There is a version of this where your mother is the project for the next two years.

It’s a very appealing version.