Posted by noa on September 18, 2003, at 15:06:11
In reply to Re: Hannah, posted by kara lynne on September 18, 2003, at 12:41:03
it doesn't matter if it was consumated or if you define it as an affair or not....the boundaries were wierd. If he wrote you love letters, that is a boundary violation. Maybe not enough to meet criminal criteria, but I would hope his professional peers would see it as ethically out of bounds. Maybe he stopped himself from the slippery slope before he had gone all the way down, but he did cause harm, did he not?
I also cringe when I hear about a therapist starting a therapy relationship by predicting he will love you. It sounds like bulls**t to me, first of all, and it comes across as unprofessional, and it gives me that lump in the stomach feeling about shaky boundaries.
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