Posted by Dinah on October 16, 2007, at 9:21:43
In reply to Re: Therapist away for just a week » Dinah, posted by Daisym on October 15, 2007, at 22:47:45
Sometimes he is wise. :)
I'm not sure that there is anything I can do to help keep connected. I'm not really good at that.
I *do* have three days to get that really nice message he left my phone when it called him in the middle of the night out of voicemail before the phone company deletes it. That should help me think of him.
I think mainly I'm glad that I had the nerve (and the confidence in him) to express what I was feeling. Usually I would have let it pass because it would have felt like I didn't have a right to do anything but accept it. He was telling nothing but the truth. I'd have felt hurt, and pushed it aside, and chosen to be amused by it. Especially since he would be leaving for a week.
It's nice to know I have the faith in the therapeutic relationship, to say something totally silly and vulnerable and even presumptuous, knowing that he'll respond in a way that will help - even if there's no immediate chance for repair if he didn't.
I wish I did have time to do something other than work. But I have to work like a demon between now and the end of the month. Sigh. And my body won't put in the emergency long hours anymore. Sunday night I only got three hours of sleep, and while I took off last night, I don't even remember it and I'm worrying what I said in chat. I'm going to have to work and work and work. What's really depressing is that the resulting increase in my pay check brings home how little I make in comparison to how much grief it causes me.
I probably won't have time to miss him.
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