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Originally Posted by Petra5ed
Do you really not trust him or were you just angry at him walking in? I'm just curious why you felt disappointed, or what he needed to do to convince you to trust him that he refused to do. Sometimes we can unknowingly create a reason to get distance when a relationship is getting closer and are feeling vulnerable. There are a number of reasons why you would feel this way depending on the facts and circumstances you know? Like if he really was lacking empathy and treating you badly, your taking revenge for calling him out on this might be a very healthy reaction.
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So when I was coming yesterday, I felt like I do not want to trust him anymore because I had the feeling that whenever I put my guard down, he hit me in the weakest point, and I gave him two examples: (POSSIBLE TRIGGER)
1) I do have a great relationship with my parents and for last three sessions he tried to convince me to blame them because they did not manage to protect me from the abusers (they did not know about anything) and he did not say anything bad about my abusers but he said many not very nice things about my parents. In my opinion, even if he thought so and even if something of that was true he should not tell me something like that just before Xmas especially as he knew that I'd go home, meet at least 3 of my abusers and my parents are the "safe base" for me...
2) We missed the appointment, I guess it was a simple misunderstanding, I wrote down a day and hour (maybe wrong) but I read all dates a week earlier and he confirmed by saying "right" so it was not only my fault but when he did not show up and I sent him an e-mail, he responded that we were not supposed to have any meeting and when I disagreed he said that he's sorry for not making himself clear enough... And I felt like he punched me because two weeks earlier I had told him that the worst thing which happened to me last year was that I missed the doctor appointment and I could not forgive it myself, and I was pretty ill for two days etc. And this time I felt (maybe wrong) that he used that situation and really wanted to write "you have already messed once, so probably it's your fault again"...
So I do not know if actually I had a rational reason to not trust him... So he had to explain me some things, like for instance for me when I told him some things about csa, he only commented "when you were talking about it, I was feeling sick" - I told him that I may understand it as I make him feeling sick, and he actually confirmed that sometimes it might be correct (sic!). For me it was the lack of empathy (he could have said e.g. "this what happened to you made me feeling sick"), while for him it was sign of huge empathy because he was feeling sick... He said that I just wanted a pity not an empathy... He also explained me that he doesn't tell me this what I should hear (I really thought so!) or he doesn't think what might be the impact of his words on me (example - see point 1) which really surprised me because I always think about the possible influence of my words

He also said that he thinks that I was angry or disappointed at him because he left me for two weeks break (Xmas holidays), I didn't think so but how can I judge it?
Based on this what I wrote, did I have a reason to feel his lack of empathy and my lack of trust or was I just overreacting?