The imaginary female therapist is tapping her pen on her pad like a drummer in a band. "So, how did you come up with this idea? Instead of maybe just facing the fact that he wants to end your relationship with him."
"First of all, [Morpheus] is a lot of things, including an entitled prick, but he's not stupid, and the biggest mystery of him is that he bends the truth to whatever motive suits him at the time, he just uses lies at his discretion the way some people order sex toys or porn over the internet. It's always through an anon email account, and then they tell their wives they're shopping for shoes. He just lives this life that only he knows the whole truth about it. I can't figure out if he's lying because he's ashamed of who he is, if he's trying to protect people or if he's just manipulating people as it's convenient for him. But he's definitely lying in those emails. He's got some kind of game going on, okay? Have you read The Girl on the Train or watch the movie?"
"No. What does that have to do with anything?"
"At least watch the movie, but realize that in the book, Rachel, the main character, was fat, and her ex-husband and his new wife both made fun of her for being fat, which changes the whole story. It's about the things we do to other people when we want to avoid the truth about ourselves, and how other people abuse us with lies."
"But what evidence do you have about [Morpheus]?"
"Fine, first, while I was having this ridiculous conversation with him over email, this woman called my phone twice, the caller ID came up as being from 'Lindsay [last name].' She left a voicemail message, said her name was Lindsay, and wanted me to call her back. She's obviously not a telemarketer, she's not from one of my doctors' offices, so who is she? I guess a couple weeks ago that she was his new girlfriend, but I don't have any proof. Number two, years ago, sometime during '08 or '09, [Morpheus] calls me in the middle of the afternoon, probably drunk, and tells me that his mother went through his TXT-messages, and found a message I left him saying that I loved him. He denied the entire thing to his mother, but he was so upset that it could have, and probably did, expose him as a liar and a cheater to his family. What kind of fucked up Mom searches her son's phone? Isn't that extraordinarily controlling? Why didn't he just say to his Mom, 'Hey, I'm in love with this woman named [Jae], and I want to be with her. I'm getting a divorce.' But [Morpheus] never told anyone about me. His best friend to this day doesn't even know I exist. So, he lies. What makes you think he wouldn't lie about this?"
"But that doesn't exactly prove that his new girlfriend went through his email account, and saw past emails from you, and he found out about it because she complained, and therefore he planted those new emails all as a ruse. Doesn't that seem like a bit of a stretch?"
"People are complicated, and if you read any psychology book, you learn one thing: there's always more going on than what is on the surface."
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