12/08/2025
Why I No Longer Do Love Work… and Why Love Readings Are Next On The Chopping Block
By: Root Doctor Kye
The craziest part about doing love work in this line of work is that it attracts two extremes… people who are completely male-centered or people who are desperate. And when you mix those energies together with spiritual work, you’re going to see the worst sides of human nature. After years of watching the same patterns repeat themselves, I had to accept that love work brings out a level of delusion, entitlement, and obsession that no practitioner should have to tolerate.
Let me explain.
One of the biggest issues I’ve faced is that clients will lie on you. I had a woman (no longer my client) who doesn’t even live in America. I gave her multiple readings about the same man and told her repeatedly to leave him alone. She kept coming back asking the same question in different ways, hoping I’d eventually say something different. When she asked if there was anything she could do, I redirected the reading to answer her specific question. The truth was: the only way she could be with him without destroying herself was if he received deep spiritual, mental, and emotional healing from a practitioner in her own country. I told her clearly that I could not help him, because what was done to him spiritually was done by someone from that country. I was very specific with her.
She, however, chose to go tell people connected to her in the U.S. (people who are my actual clients) that I supposedly said he was “good for her.” She lied. She rewrote the message to suit her fantasy, then put my name on it. And that is the kind of thing that happens constantly with love work.
Then there’s another type of situation I deal with regularly: clients who get good news in a reading, then run out and sabotage it… and blame me for the outcome. I’ve had at least 10–15 people who I clearly told, “Yes, this is a good match for you IF you handle it with patience and maturity.” And then they go cheat, stalk the person, cuss them out, overreact, or push too hard… and when everything falls apart, they come right back to me asking, “But why didn’t it work?”
This is where people truly don’t understand what a reading is. Most readers (unless you are specifically going to a clairvoyant or psychic) are giving you your circumstances. That means we tell you what is happening, what the probabilities are, and what the highest potential outcome looks like. But you still have free will. If you don’t follow the advice that comes with the reading, you cannot expect the best outcome to magically manifest on its own. Spiritual work is not a substitute for emotional regulation, patience, self-control, or basic relationship skills.
And then there are the obsessive ones.
I had a woman drive all the way from Louisiana to my store in Little Rock to try to force me to do work for her because she said, “Your work is the only one that ever worked.” And yes… it worked the very next day. But she is also one of the main reasons I retired from doing that type of work. Once you do a love job for someone, they start calling all hours of the night with updates, panic, questions, and requests for reassurance. They want you to babysit the work, babysit their emotions, and babysit the situation. And the truth is… once a practitioner does their work, unless they specifically offer follow-ups, you need to leave them alone. The obsession becomes invasive, draining, and spiritually unsafe for both practitioner and client.
The uncomfortable truth is this:
Most people who come for love work do not actually want love… they want control. And when things fall apart, instead of blaming themselves or acknowledging the reality of the person they chose, they blame the practitioner.
And that’s exactly why I do not do love work anymore. And it’s also why I’m about to stop offering love readings too. I refuse to let someone’s desperation, irresponsibility, or obsession become my problem.
If you ruin your own relationship… don’t blame me.
If you ignore the advice I give you… don’t blame me.
If you lie, manipulate, or chase after someone who does not want you… don’t blame me.
Don’t blame the reader. Blame yourself.
When love becomes chaos, projection, and delusion, the only wise choice is to step away.
And that’s exactly what I’m doing.
