Can I ask a totally non-judgmental, just-trying-to-get-insight question?
Why would you feel it necessary to share your feelings with your therapist? Is it just so that there are no secrets between you? Or do you feel like if you keep those kinds of feelings to yourself, then they just get bigger and bigger?
I feel some things about my therapist. Our relationship is something I can't really relate to anything I've ever experienced, but I know it goes beyond just a formal business/professional thing. I wouldn't fall to pieces if my dentist stopped seeing me, but I would for my therapist. However, I wouldn't feel comfortable talking to her about this because I would feel like it has no place in my therapy. And I would be afraid of the very thing you're dealing with--the aftershock.
Please don't think I'm not saying you did anything wrong. I've noticed most posters here seem to be just as open as you are, so I'm obviously the strange one. I'm just trying to understand the intention.
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