Posted by LG04 on May 18, 2004, at 7:33:16
Hi, does anyone here ever have issues with how strange it is to have a close relationship with your therapist but not knowing much about their "real" life? The truth is that I actually know quite a lot because I ask a lot of questions. But still, I think about how I know NOTHING about her husband...someone she has been married to for almost 20 years...that he is obviously the most important person in her life (along with her children), and I know next to nothing about him or their relationship. And then I think, how can our relationship be close (which it is) when I don't even know anything about the person closest to her that she shares her life with?
I could probably ask her a few questions but I am not sure I want to because I also feel very jealous of him. So part of me doesn't want to know. Does anyone else here also feel jealous of their therapist's spouse? Not in an "in love" kind of a way, but in a way that he gets to be with her all the time and that they share their life/decisions/home/children together.
I will bring this up with her at one of our next meetings, but I still wanted to know if anyone else ever has either of these feelings?
LG
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