Chapter 7
It was torture. He couldn’t concentrate at work. One client got so annoyed at Vincent’s lack of attention that he walked out of the session. Vincent kept checking his phone to see if he’d missed any messages. And when other friends phoned, he couldn’t get rid of them fast enough.
It wasn’t healthy. As a counsellor, he knew his behaviour was bordering on being obsessive, and he couldn’t have that. What good would it do? As he’d told many clients in the past, obsessive behaviour has exactly the opposite effect to the one intended. It drives people away rather than drawing them in.
During his lunch break on Wednesday, he called some friends and managed to find two who were free that evening. He suggested they go out for a meal—his reasoning being that catching up with them would
