Posted by Dinah on April 2, 2003, at 7:35:09
In reply to Re: so the moral is? » Miller, posted by Tabitha on April 2, 2003, at 2:07:57
Isn't that one of the ideas behind interpersonal therapy? That the therapist helps us find that lost button and helps us learn how to sew it back on? I think the story is a pretty good one for a therapist to tell.
Mine is always telling me that my relationship with my parents left me with some serious lacks. And that I'm supposed to find in my relationship with him new expectations and new ways of relating. I dunno. Sometimes I think that's a big load of horse manure.
But at any rate, I think we sometimes get stuck on our own and it does take someone else to help us find what we are missing and how to either get it or learn to live without it. Self reliance is great, but maybe that's the stretch goal. In the meatime, our culture probably puts too little emphasis on how we are all entwined and how we all need each other.
Or maybe I'm all full of horse manure myself. :)
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