Posted by Dinah on October 18, 2009, at 10:57:25
In reply to we love each other., posted by Cal on October 18, 2009, at 8:26:54
The trouble with winning someone who has to break every ethical value they claim to hold dear, is that you end up with someone who has no real regard for ethical values.
Moreover, wherever she moves her practice, she's going to have lost not only her current income stream, but she will be in perpetual risk of losing her license. Unless she dislikes her current line of work, that could lead to some resentment. And more lies. To her professional organization. And implicitly to her future clients, who will have no idea that she's holding her license out of a deception that may be blown out of the water at any time. I'm guessing your husband won't be too crazy about her after this? If my husband ran off with his (at this point nonexistent) therapist, I'd report that therapist without thinking twice.
She feels no sense of obligation to her current clients?
I don't know you, or her, or your relationship. But in general this is a prize that seems to me to be better left to fantasy. There is a reason for the rules.
I wish you well, and hope that this is an aberration rather than an habitual part of her character. But I hope for her future clients that she does some serious work on herself before seeing clients again.
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