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Old Oct 19, 2012, 11:53 AM
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Originally Posted by SallyBrown View Post
Do you think it's less about drawing an explicit link between "professional" and "caring", and more that "professional" is a word that implies boundaries and limits, and for you boundaries and limits can feel cold and uncaring?
Thanks, Sally.
Yes!! Or it's both. Boundaries and limits definitely feel uncaring to me, though I KNOW that's not the case. Yes, when my T told me it's best to go back to my not emailing her, it felt bad. When she said she emailed me only because it was 3 weeks, it felt bad. Uncaring. Yes. It's not that I don't intellectually understand, you know. It's the emotional part of me that reacts. Probably those child parts who want there to be NO boundaries.