Posted by pegasus on February 8, 2007, at 17:37:09
In reply to Thanks you guys, posted by pegasus on February 7, 2007, at 19:37:27
Well, I told her about it today, and she groaned and said, Oh my worst nightmare! And then she said, when my sister started that program I knew this would happen. Then she asked me what was going on for me around it. She asked whether it would have been better if she had warned me that I might run into her sister there, and we agreed that it would not have been better. I would have just wondered about everyone that I met there.
So, basically we just explored what was weird about it for me, and what happens if I wanted to continue to be friendly with her sister. We discussed the possibility that her sister might have also wondered whether I was working with her. Mostly I think what bugged me was the possibility that if things had gone differently I *might* have ended up knowing a whole lot of things about my T that I hadn't wanted to know. And also that I was angry at my T (irrationally, of course) for not being able to protect me from that spillage of my private therapy into the non-private real life.
I think she handled it pretty well. We moved on to other topics afer a while. She was pretty uncomfortable with the idea at first, but not with talking about it.
I do feel better. It was nice that she could identify that I was angry for her not being able to protect me. That felt really right, and I hadn't figured it out on my own.
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