Wow so I don't really know what to say from all the responses. Well, I guess I will start with the one from Sally Brown about me being cold when trying to get my T to admit that she doesn't have any kids. This one kind of hurt. I was trying to get my T to admit this because honestly, I want her to show some sort of emotion or disclose something. Not that she doesn't show emotion, but she never discloses about herself. I guess I just wanted her to admit something and show some sort of vulnerability.
Anyways, I know that my T does not approve of some things my mom has done; I have been seeing her long enough to know this. And some of the things I have told her about my mom do sound bad if I look at them objectively, but sometimes I do think that T is exagerrating things. Although I am noticing now, maybe with the help of therapy, that my mom has/is influencing me with things like my future career choices. I am thinking of going to school for social work and my mom, who is a doctor, immediately sounded very disapointed and told me that she looks down on social workers. She did not want me to go to school for that, even if that is what I wanted. In the past, I think that maybe I would not have even thought about a social work MA b/c of my mom's elitist attitude, but now I am trying to look past that and at what I want. And I know if I tell my T this, about the conversation with my mom, then she will act disaproving of her, which I suppose is fair because it's not exactly a supportive response. But I still hate telling T these things because of her frowny/disaproving reaction of my mom.
Edit: It is just hard sharing things about my mom with my T that I know are not exactly the most flattering b/c I know what her reaction will be. And then sometimes I will say things that I didn't think were hurtful but she does (i.e. the "I used to be so proud" comment) and T will frown, and then I will be thinking that she is being too harsh on my mom. It's just hard b/c I can kind of tell that T doesn't really approve of my parents, which include my mom, and so I feel badly telling her non flattering things about them b/c then I am only reinforcing that opinion.
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