This made me . Early in therapy, T said something about the "relationship" and I freaked. I told him to please never EVER use that word. We agreed on "therapeutic alliance". lolol

Recently, on a phone message, T was saying something about the progress I've made and he said "remember when we couldn't even use the word relationship?".

I'm happy to have a relationship with T now, but wow, did I fight it.

It's so funny to read about someone else having an aversion to that word. I guess we're never alone in all of this!