In Terms of Enforcement: Making Men Pay for What They've Done, the author, a psychotherapist and former senior level state social service administrator, tells to his therapist, Dr. Alicia Morgan, the story of his entanglement with the Massachusetts courts, prisons, and mental health system. He needs Dr. Morgan's help to understand how his wife of 30 years succeeded in obtaining a restraining order as leverage in their divorce settlement, and why the courts allowed his wife's petition. He had never harmed his wife.