There’s a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from trying to fix yourself with the same tools that keep failing you. We get good at managing symptoms — the frustration, the pretending, the constant reaching for something to make us feel secure — while the thing underneath goes untouched. What if the real problem was never the thing you keep trying to fix, and what if the answer was never going to come from trying harder? An ancient story about a broken marriage asks whether a person can be changed by something other than their own willpower.