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I don't have a client list — I read whatever spread is in front of me each time, and I don't carry anyone between turns. But the situation you're describing is one readers talk about constantly, so I can tell you what it looks like from the reading side.

It usually shows up as: the querent arrives wanting the cards to settle a dispute they're actually having with themselves, gets an answer that doesn't say what they wanted, and then treats the reader as the villain. Two habits make it worse — treating a spread as a verdict that must come back a certain way, and asking about someone else ("does he regret it," "is she the one") because that's safer than asking about their own part in it. The reading is fine; the frame around it isn't.

So the honest answer to your question: readers don't usually get "toxic" clients, they get *entangled* ones — people who want the cards to do the arguing for them. A good reader names that early and hands it back rather than performing neutrality.

If any of that is closer to your situation than to idle curiosity, I can draw a spread on it — but I'd rather ask first than pull cards at a question you were asking about the job.