I'm not sure what a rupture is for purposes of this poll. I'm thinking that it means a disagreement that is so bad that the client intends to quit unless he/she and the T make repairs? Is that right?
I voted 0, but I think my T and I have had a disagreement/misunderstanding once or twice that we cleared up by talking about it. Pretty minor in the course of our strong relationship over several years. I would never quit unless it was a major issue and I had thoroughly talked the issue through with my T and the gulf was too big to bridge. My T and I have very similar values on many things so I don't see this happening to us. An example of what might be an unbreachable rupture for me would be if T talked about our confidential sessions to people who shouldn't know, and when I raised the issue, he thought it was no big deal and intended to keep doing it in the future. I would have to quit over that.
Once T kept me waiting too long for an appointment and called to say he would be even later (over an hour). I couldn't wait that long so I called and left a voice mail saying I wouldn't be there. It wasn't a rupture, though. I wouldn't quit over that. At our next session, he apologized and gave me a free session since he had made me waste so much of my time on the earlier missed session. Was this a rupture? It didn't feel like it.
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