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Therapist Infatuation - Revisited (I told him!)

Posted by mikhail99 on January 6, 2003, at 17:08:35

Hi all,

I know a few of you were interested in my ongoing saga about being infatuated with my therapist. I wrote him a letter and sent it last week, knowing I'd see him today. I very reluctantly showed up this morning and he was wonderful about it. He said he checked his voice mail and was very happy that I didn't cancel.

He assured me that it was normal to feel this way and said that we would work through this as long as I didn't have any "expectations" about things (and I certainly don't!) and as long as it didn't get painful for me or weird that we could get through it. I asked him if this has ever happened before and he said sort of but the client wouldn't discuss it. I have to thank my sister for recommending writing the letter, it allowed me to put down my thoughts, think about it for a couple of weeks and then send it. I think it also gave him a chance to think about how to handle it as well.

We had a good talk today about how this could be affecting my marriage (my relationship with my husband suffers in comparison because we don't communicate) and of course my lousy father history.

But anyway, I just wanted to let you all know that I did it and it wasn't as bad as I expected. I still feel like an adolescent ass but at least now I know he isn't going to abandon me. :-)

Take care!
Mik


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