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Stress and T stuff

Posted by thewrite1 on June 15, 2005, at 12:00:30

I've had quite stressful run of thing lately. The gist of it is that my MIL cannot accept that it's not her place to make decisions regarding my son. I've been doing battle with her since he was born. The whole thing came to a head when we had a screaming match over the phone last week. She yelled at me first. I was perfectly calm and reasonable until then. When she told me it was my fault my son wasn't walking yet, that's kind of when I hit the roof. We're currently not speaking and I won't speak to her until she apoligizes, which may never happen and that's fine with me.

This all happened on Thursday and I wanted to call my T, but it was late and I thought I could wait. We usually meet on Sat, but she was unavailable through the weekend. We had arranged to have a phone session Monday morning. I figured I'd just hold off until then despite the degree of stress I was feeling.

So session time came and went and my T didn't call. I left a message on her voicemail explaining that I thought we'd had a session scheduled. She has a tendency to forget phone sessions, so I just don't even take it personally anymore. However, she usually gets back to me pretty quickly after I leave a message for her. Three hours later I still hadn't heard anything. I called her home office. Nothing. I called her cell. Nothing. I called the operator and asked him to locate her. He was unable to do that, but left a message for her telling her I had an emergency and to call me.

By this point, I was convinced she was either dead or dying. I was so stressed out to begin with and then this. I couldn't keep food down, I was just sick. Finally at nearly 6 PM she called me and I immediately asked her if she was okay. I don't know if freaking out thinking something had happened to her qualified as an emergency, but it felt like one to me.

She told me she had 20 minutes she could talk and explained that her aunt had died and that's why she forgot about our session. She wasn't the least bit apathetic that she'd forgotten our call. I only got half a session, and she made no offer to called me at a later time. I'm trying to tell myself that she's dealing with her own stuff, but I guess it's just happening at a bad time for me. I don't know if I'm being unreasonable or what. I just feel blah. Thanks for listening if you made it this far.


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