Sannah, I knew you'd say that! I thought of those stages you've posted about to me when I wrote "teenage part". But it's my pattern to "be in love with my Ts", so it's not like I haven't gone through these stages before in therapy. I THINK the difference is, as my T will say, that I'm separating out from the parts; they are not running the show. My SELF recognizes that a PART of me feels this way, and that it doesn't have to take over. Otherwise, this isn't different from the way I've felt about my other Ts. I called it being addicted to them, or being in love with them, not that a part of me felt that way. Subtle difference but important?

This teenage part hasn't grown up. I'm not sure the child part has yet either because she wants to sit in my T's lap and be held.