Thanks, Sannah....

Yes, I do believe I need to talk through this with T. I'd imagine that it has to do with being violated so many times throughout my childhood and into adulthood. Trauma response.

T has encouraged me to work towards having healthy reactions in spite of how I'm feeling....because those feelings don't typically just 'go away'. It's hard.

And yes, I did have those feelings while trying to address it with her, but luckily we were talking about some things that helped lay the groundwork for that discussion to happen...so that I was able to continue to have the courage to follow through.

I talked to T about some of this in my session today, and he was very pleased. He said that I will probably be having this discussion with her 8-9 times before it really sinks in and the behaviors change. I just need to continue to follow through on enforcing the boundaries and setting limits. So far, so good.