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Old Oct 13, 2011, 12:17 PM
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Originally Posted by stopdog View Post
It has not happened with the second one yet. Just the other one.
That is good news. Since this is not a problem with the current T, then perhaps let sleeping dogs lie. You've been seeing the new T for 8 months, which is quite a long time for this problem to have a chance to come up, and it hasn't. I think this is very positive! Since there isn't a problem with new T in this regard, it seems the taping wouldn't be appropriate at this time. Plus, if you insist on taping for some problem she doesn't have, it could harm the relationship, IMO. Like you just can't trust her and think she is doing this crap to you, just like your other T did. Why not take the last 5 minutes of each session and review together what was said so that you can clear up any pieces you two don't remember the same right there and then? If you do this studiously a few times, maybe it will help you accept her for the T she is, not for the T of your past.

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Originally Posted by stopdog
It would provide a way to work things out rather than the constant "You are wrong " "no you are wrong" that we had going on.
There is no constant "you are wrong" going on with this T. There isn't a problem with this. I think you are trying to put your old T's behavior onto your new one, and that is something that is important to work through with current T. I guess it's a form of T to T transference. Part of working through this is continuing to not see this behavior from your T, and you have 8 months of that under your belt. Keep going. I have now seen my T for 5 years and just in the last 6 months or so we had a situation where I kept expecting him to react a certain way to me based on how someone else had been to me in my past. We had to work through that before we could proceed. We looked for "evidence" in all of our past interactions that he would behave that way and couldn't really find it. I brought up several situations from our interactions in the past that hinted maybe he would act that way, and we dealt with each of them. My psyche was really grasping at straws to cast him in the role of that person from my past. I am sure he was internally rolling his eyes at that, like what does he have to do to be perfect?! Anyway, we made it through. Good luck to you.
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