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Originally Posted by Hope-Full
I'm wondering if this has been stirred up by the fact that one of my support people went on a long-term leave, and she is someone I am very attached to. While she's on leave, I am to have no contact whatsoever. I think that part of me feels like what I did with old T is the same situation as now, only in reverse. In the current case, I was the person who was left. In the previous case, I was the person doing the leaving. Now that I know how bad being left feels, I want to acknowledge my actions and apologize.
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If it would help more than hurt, what is the harm?
But I still think there is a difference in the client losing the support person and the therapist losing a client. I generally do not believe therapists are hurt by clients and if they are, they manage it and go on. A client leaving a therapist is not the same as the client being left by the therapist or other support persons. The therapist has moved on.