Chopin,

I read your thread last night and again this morning. I truly don't know what to say other than to send you big hugs and hope that your T recognizes that imposing her beliefs is creating a rift between you all. I was so excited for you after your appt earlier this week and am saddened that opening up like this brought up such a difficult situation. It seems like you already know this, but there is nothing at all wrong with your sexuality. I have a very dear friend (a mom-like person) whose beliefs are like those of your T about homosexuality. I am not homosexual but have many close friends who are and it's frustrating for me to see the discrimination they endure with respect to health insurance, visitation at the hospital, etc. Besides they are just great people and human beings. Hearing that they are sinning, bad people from this dear friend pushes me away from Christianity (at one point I was a Christian), but beliefs like this just seem to me wholly incompatible with acceptance and love that Christianity is supposed to espouse. OK, enough w/ my rant... I hope your T will get back to you and that you all can talk this out and come to a place where you can work together. It sounds like your sexuality and the affair are things that you need to talk out in therapy sooner rather than later. I hope that you can find a safe space to do this with her or another T. Again,