I was away last week and while I was gone I had a phone session with T. I told him the dream I had. In the dream I was swimming with a little girl and playing with her in the water. Then she got into water over her head but her Dad was standing there, very tall and seemingly unconcerned even though she was under water. Then her dad told me that she could handle it and I shouldn't worry. I was frightened that he wasn't being vigilant enough but he insisted she could handle it and would be okay so I swam away. I told T that I thought the little girl was a part of me and that he was the Dad. We talked about the S ideation of the past few weeks, and how difficult it is for me to tell him when I think I am in trouble. I split out any emotion because there is a part of me that doesn't expect any help at all. The end result is that the other person perceives this emotionless request as empty and doesn't really understand the emergency. We talked a little more about the dream and then T commented that (in him) I was experiencing both the neglectful mother and the supportive father at the same time. I was holding both sets of feelings simultaneously.