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Old Mar 16, 2013, 09:15 AM
Syra Syra is offline
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Originally Posted by ECHOES View Post
I can imagine how hurt you must feel. And abandoned too. It was a sudden ending of a very important relationship. You must grieve. I'm glad you have a new T to help you with this abandonment.

I had a T exit my life without warning and it was very painful, I was angry and hurt. He did something to cause him to lose his license and his behavior was obviously wrong and was his choice.

I keep finding myself mad at your T for her immediate departure. I realize she is married and will move with her spouse. However, she has an important and meaningful profession too. It is a large and important part of her life, and obviously a large and important part of her clients' lives. Her planning, or lack of actually, was awful. Non-existent, really. Thoughtless, to me. Of course she would move with her spouse, but she had a responsibility to exit her own profession in a responsible and therapeutic way. A move takes time to plan and organize and she should have let her clients in on what was happening. Maybe that just wasn't possible, idk, but I just find it hard to understand a sudden departure like that.

I thought of this the first time I responded, and then thought: Well, no, she needs to go wth her husband. After reading your thoughts, I agree that she should have stayed behind for a month or two to make sure she had done what she could to transition her clients. Couples take such breaks all the time for such logistical reasons. I had a therapist do this to me once - but I wasn't upset because I was thinking of leaving him anyway so this made it easy. Even with that, I was perturbed that he took us on as a client, knowing he was looking to sell his home and move away.