Posted by Dinah on January 16, 2011, at 8:51:54
In reply to Update, posted by TherapyGirl on January 14, 2011, at 21:07:06
I really admire you. I think that with all the hurts, I might have cut off all contact, and been left forever with the taste of a bad ending in my mouth.
But the two of you are delicately forging a different sort of relationship. It sounds as if you are keeping the relationship as a priority even when it hurts, and accepting, as gracefully as possible, the limitations. And it can't be all that easy for her either to chart the boundaries between reciprocity and the duties that fall to therapists, former or not.
I imagine her first response, about not missing the work, were made when she was tired and perhaps depressed from her husband's death?
It's great that you found a new therapist you like and who is able to help you, despite not having the depth of a long term relationship.
I hope I can do half so well as you, when the time comes. But I doubt it.
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