Posted by fallsfall on December 31, 2004, at 10:14:16
In reply to My first double session day, posted by daisym on December 31, 2004, at 2:46:02
He suggested the double session because you needed it. "Your" topic was getting in the way of discussing "his" topic. So by giving you the extra hour he made it so that "your" topic wouldn't be in the way. That both topics could be discussed.
Your feeling that you had to prove that "your" topic was urgent is interesting. You certainly weren't putting him out. He had planned to work that hour. He was in a position where he was not going to be paid for the hour. So you taking the session was not a hardship for him. Did he have a patient after your "2nd" session? It's not even like you asked him to stay late. He could listen to you whine or he could listen to someone else whine - but you didn't even whine! It sounds like you were working very hard. You are not a cross that he has to bear. He likes you. He has told you that and shown you, too.
I think it was a pretty creative way to get past your resistance to "his" topic. It worked, didn't it?
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