Posted by Dinah on May 18, 2004, at 9:56:08
In reply to not knowing about your therapist's real life, posted by LG04 on May 18, 2004, at 7:33:16
I'm not jealous of her. I figure I have the part of my therapist I want, and she's welcome to the rest. Outside of therapy, he's probably just a regular guy and a regular husband. No better than mine, though different.
In fact, I hope they are enormously and fabulously happy together so that he'll be happy too. He doesn't talk about her a lot, of course, because it's my therapy. And because he probably wants his privacy. But neither does he avoid mentioning her at all. It's sort of like the aquaintance level mentioning of spouse and family.
I'll admit though that the unequal exchange of information is a bit awkward. And it scares me that I won't know things that might affect the therapy until he chooses to mention them. I've gotten a lot better about that though, as his life settles down.
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