Posted by seldomseen on October 25, 2009, at 18:53:38
In reply to Re: Well, therapist is on vacation. » seldomseen, posted by Dinah on October 25, 2009, at 17:30:08
The five words were:
Provencial (as described)
Paternal (to sons, not daughters)
Subtly Libidinous (okay, well, he is)
Professional (a consummate professional, a master at his craft.)
Empathetic (he gets it)To me, none of those relate to abandonment, except for maybe the father, but even that is a stretch.
When he speaks of this list, and he does often, it is always in terms of empathetic being the last thing I mentioned (as though these were rank ordered - they aren't). But I presuming that the fact I mentioned empathetic last, means I must have just "tacked" it on, to an otherwise unremarkable list. Perhaps after all these years, he expected words like trustworthy, kind, and benevolent - and all of these are true, just not on the list.
I don't know what to think until we talk about this some.
Seldom.
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