Chris makes some good points but I wonder if there's something else going on.
I mentioned to T2 that when i do spiritual reading, sometimes I realize that I have just skipped over half a page. I have learned that there's probably something in there that I really need to hear, but am avoiding, so I deliberately go back and read the skipped part until I understand it.

Or in some book (Judith Herman's Trauma and Recovery was one), it can happen that I'm OK in the first few chapters but later on the author leaves me behind. As far as I can tell, I just have no frame of reference with which to grasp what she's talking about.

T2 talks sometimes about dealing with feelings, about handling things in a well adjusted way, and I look at her and say, I know what you just said is English, but the words make no sense to me. I don't have the frame of reference to understand. Mostly she will not try to make me understand, as Chris' T will; rather she will back up a little, and work on things at a lower level, so to speak, and maybe some day i will be ready for the higher things.