Posted by rabidreader on July 23, 2005, at 11:58:57
I had an affair with my academic mentor (who was married) when I was in my early 20s. He always said his greatest gift was not his academics but his "gift" for listening and being therapuetic.
Now that my T is leaving and I'm saddled with all these intense transference feelings, and feelings of loss, I'm making a connection between my old mentor and this T. They are wildly different, but maybe because I had the affair with the mentor I held out hope that I could have an affair with my T?
Does anyone else think it's wrong for a teacher to set himself up as a T-figure?
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