1.) What is the goal of your therapy? Is it to make needed change(s) in your life? Is it to deal with "family of origin" issues? Is it to deal with your current emotional issues? All of the above. And I've made great progress in going on 2 years now and have made some great changes in my life (including starting a new job that I love 7 months ago)

2.) Do you tell / talk with your therapist about everything? I would say a resounding YES (well, not what I ate for breakfast etc. but everything of any substance!) I've learned over the time I've been on this journey with her that things I might not think are important enough to share almost always ARE so I share everything. Or are there aspects of your life that you don't even share with your therapist? If so, what effect, if any, do you feel this has on the success or lack thereof of your therapy? I think the level of trust in our therapy relationship has been tantamount to the progress that I've made in learning who I am and becoming that person.

We do have lighter, chatty sessions on occasion, and I think those are just as important like tinyrabbit said it's sometimes also about the unspoken, unconscious aspects of the relationship. My relationship with t is like nothing I have ever experienced before, in some ways more intimate even than my relationship with my h. there are things about me that I haven't told him in 16 years of marriage that she knows. I can't believe I just admitted that.