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May 22, 2013, 09:31 PM
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Member Since: Mar 2013
Location: USA
Posts: 1,486
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Hi pbutton! 
Your mother sounds like mine, so I might have a sense of where this is coming from.
I don't know if this was your experience, but if you grow up in a situation in which 'offers' of help, kindness...were often not actually such, but about meeting the other person's needs cloaked in meeting yours, it can become very difficult to trust that what is being offered is sincere, comes from a place of caring, and is truly about you and your best interests.
I think the extra time is an 'offer' from your therapist -to help you in a time of need, because he cares, because he feels it is your best interest. Perhaps if you can 'accept' his 'offer' as coming from what you know about him, the good you have experienced with him, rather than an arrow thrown at you from your past...
I think you deserve this 'gift' and I hope you will at some point be able to accept it for what it is.
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