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Old Sep 05, 2010, 05:58 PM
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Jexa, I liked your email.

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A thought just occurred to me. Is it possible I am obsessing about this because I am avoiding the pain of the termination?
There could be something to that. What do you think?

If my T were moving away, I would not put too much into the search for a new T while in the midst of trying to terminate. But I'm kind of an "unable to do two things at once" sort of person, so that may not be the case for you. I'm just thinking--if I had to terminate with my T, I would want to give our relationship its due, and celebrate our magnificent time together, and do a little mourning together about its end. Those things would be healing for me. Obsessing about who my next T would be would not help me celebrate or mourn the current relationship. It would distract me from my true feelings and cause me to miss out on the last valuable and bittersweet minutes with my T. Probably all I would do about finding a new T would be to ask my current T for a list of Ts he thought might work for me, and that would be it.

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Or maybe I need this in place so that I feel safe enough to process the pain of the termination?
Only you know.
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Thanks for this!
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