Thread: Wedding ring?
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Old Jul 07, 2012, 10:25 PM
Anonymous37777
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I think, lostmyway21, that the fact that this is an issue that is bothering you that you need to bring it up and discuss it with your therapist. I know a lot of "non therapy" people (male and female) that choose not to wear their wedding rings. Often it is a personal thing and sometimes it is an allergy thing.

I do think that is important, especially considering the attachement issues that many of us deal with in therapy (rejection, misinterpetation of our therapist's comments or statements, abandonment, severe reactions to our therapists going away on vacation/conferences etc.) we need to talk about on a very very deep level our feelings on these topics. Often we need to focuse on these topics session after session until we gain some level of closure.

One of the things I've noticed here on PC, is that we ask these deep angsting questions here on line .. .but we fail to venture into the difficult and painful area of saying these things in our sessions. I'm not saying this in criticism, because I know that I am in the group that holds back, swallows my questions or pain and just soldiers on. But how is that helping us? Not much. ... So, I would say, lostmyway21, what keeps you from asking him why he might not wear his wedding ring when YOU know he is married? Is it your own fear that he would reject your question, block it, feel offended by it, be angry by it (and what would that mean?) or he would simply answer that it bothers him or he's never worn it? HOw interesting that we pull back and fail to be honest and upfront in a medium (psychotherapy) which demands that we as the client be all that we might avoid. . .

This is no way a reflection of what your choice might be, lostmyway21, it just struck me as so significant when we're talking about being truthful in our own personal therapy venture