Posted by Dinah on September 4, 2005, at 15:25:06
In reply to Re: Sorting stuff out » daisym, posted by Tamar on September 3, 2005, at 21:11:54
> It seems to me that wanting to be one half of a happy couple is a reasonable desire. And if you want it with your therapist… well, isn’t that very natural? No doubt he seems like an ideal partner. But I’m sure he also feels connected to you and close to you. It’s not the same as a marriage. But it can be good.
It can be very good indeed, in a completely different way. The only thing I mind about it is times like this. But this isn't usual.
I'm sort of stuck in what to say, Daisy. While I don't want my therapist as anything *but* a therapist, I understand very much feeling like I'm intruding into something that is his alone, and wondering if he really would wish I was gone. Yet when I hear his voice, I can tell that's not how he feels. I know him well enough to read him that well. And I'll bet you know your therapist well enough to read him that well. If he wished you weren't his client, you'd have felt it long ago, and you wouldn't feel towards him the way you feel towards him.
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