So my email:
"I don't think you get it. I'm on the verge of quiting therapy. I feel like our relationship had changed so much from the beginning, and I hate it. Maybe our therapeutic relationship is damaged? The fact that I'm pushing your boundaries is a huge issue for you, AND me. I feel like it can't be worked through. Even if I am getting better, it seems to always be at a pace too slow for you now. PLEASE stop pushing me so hard. You used to give me a safe place to express all my unregulated emotions but you took that away, and it's so hard having no where for it to go. I don't have that safe place to get out all my feelings anymore. I don't feel like therapy is that safe place anymore. What is going wrong with us, with our therapy? I don't feel like I can express anything to you anymore, because all you are going to tell me is you need to go to the hospital. I know you cant be there all the time, but I do need you sometimes. When are you going to slow down and help me just work through stuff like you used too? It's like since you realized I'm bipolar you've treated me different. You jump to hospital stuff all the time now. All I want is for you to talk stuff out with me. It's SO hard for me to ask me for that. It's ALL I need, but it's exactly what you've stopped doing. You can talk me out of any thought. You words have more power than anything. I'm here ready to listen. I'm NOT going to hurt myself. I promised you if I ever was going to I would tell you and that has never changed, so DROP it. There is a huge disconnect somewhere. Why don't you see it? Can we even fix this?"
His email:
"Lost i have not changed, i promise to deal with your issues in therapy, the only thing i have been trying to express is that outside of therapy there needs to be boundaries if i don't explain the boundaries then they will continue to be broken. I hope you see that this is all that i am saying. I do want to continue to work with you, but it is up to you of course. i hope to see you monday where we can further discuss and hopefully resolve any misunderstanding you have"
What do you guys think? This boundary thing is still affecting us.
Last edited by lostmyway21; Jun 07, 2012 at 02:02 PM.
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