It really does go back to childhood for me, and the thing is, I didn't even know it. I didn't know...I just expect people to be doing that to me. I think, too, there is the fact that my T is "re-parenting" me in a lot of ways, and so I tend to expect her to behave towards and treat me like my mom did.

I can definitely see a lot of progress in myself in this area. Not too long ago I wouldn't have been aware that I was thinking T was trying to teach me a lesson, much less be brave and secure enough to TELL her that's what I was thinking. But, in telling her what I had been thinking, I gave her the opportunity to show me a whole new way of looking at the world and the way people interact in it.

This will make me a better mother and a better friend and a better ME.