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Originally Posted by poetgirl76
today I was laughing instead of crying and T was laughing too......and I said, stop laughing at me! she said, I am laughing WITH you..... and it is true, I WAS laughing but I really wanted to be crying and hated that she laughed too because even though I said something darkly humorous and laughed I DID NOT want her to laugh too. And sometimes she does that and I don't always like it because I feel laughed AT.....but I need to reframe it so that I see that she is laughing WITH me, like she might cry with me if I cried......
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Were you able to explain your feelings about that? Sometimes my T apologizes for laughing because she thinks it may have offended or hurt me, but for me, it always feels good - that she is there with me and joining me and even maybe making fun of some of my silliness. But I so resonate with her laughter that it feels supportive no matter what.
How can your T know that your laughter isn't real?