Posted by Dinah on November 11, 2008, at 9:09:46
In reply to Re: What is the Nicest Thing Your T Ever Said to You?, posted by Daisym on November 11, 2008, at 0:37:15
> The other thing is that once I was joking that if I won the lottery I'd hire him as my personal private therapist and he said, "but I already am your personal private therapist." I loved that. :)
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>I think I'm more than half in love with your therapist. What an absolutely perfect thing to say.
My therapist would have been more likely to agree that it was a nice fantasy. Or... Since I showed him the tape of Dr. Kroger/Monk interchanges, he liked them so much he's been quoting them back to me. So he'd probably say "May the best man win".
He's almost amusingly insulting at times, without really realizing it. The other session before his vacation he obviously was only half there, and I accused him of wanting to be elsewhere. He responded that he *did* want to be there, and after regarding him for a moment I conceded that I believed that he wanted to want to be there. He endorsed that one with more genuineness. Later I complained that I'd spent the first thirty + minutes of the session doing what they train us to do in obedience class with our dogs. I'd been waving a treat in front of his face, drawing it up to my nose and holding it there saying in an encouraging but firm way "Lookit". I told him I'd been Lookiting him all session and I finally had gotten his attention when it was almost over. He told me that I could spend the time I did have his attention whining, or I could put it to good use. Quite the smooth talker there. :)
Yet oddly enough, I'd put it there with the nice things he's said to me. Maybe not the nicest, but nice. It's amazing what delivery can do.
But your therapist he isn't. I'm mildly envious.
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