Posted by Maria01 on November 2, 2008, at 11:55:51
In reply to My T's response to my........, posted by JayMac on November 1, 2008, at 19:35:29
I think your T does care; she may not voice it, but her ACTIONS toward you are caring. This may be one of those times where you might need to make a shift in how you see her caring in order to save yourself some angst.
An uncaring T would not respond to an email over the weekend, nor would they offer an earlier appointment. Whether or not you can make that appointment time may be a detail she may have forgotten..easy to do when there are other clients on her schedule for the week. Her expression of caring may not have come across in exactly the way you wanted it to(her verbalizing it to you), but it has come across. You posted that you've told her you don't need her to be perfect. I say cut the lady some slack just now; a lot of T's won't give lengthy responses to email, as Happyflower has said.
If anything, this looks like a good chance to learn to internalize different forms of caring and to not hold others to the "good enough" model.
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