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Old Feb 03, 2014, 02:49 PM
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I felt guilty about posting off-topic replies in another thread, so I chose to made new topic about boundaries and post here my replies.

This is the situation in my country- after therapy is legal to have any kind of relationships.
As I said it before:
I've been talking about it with my psychiatrist (who's not my therapist) and he said that after therapy everything is possible if my therapist would like it too. And then he started to tell me about his (i mean- psychiatrist) love affairs with his ex-clients.
Some time ago I was seeing psychologist (I know her, we were working in one place some time ago) and she told me- it depends on your therapist feelings, after therapy can happen anything if only you both want it to happen.
I asked my other colleague who is psychologist- did you ever meet your clients out of therapy? She said that yes.
My friend and her psychologist became good friends after therapy. They have great relationships.

It seems that my therapist has different opinion and his opinion is similar (or the same) as yours. So he is very ethical.
Before I was posting here I was sure that he is the only one who thinks like that and that he made his own boundaries. I thought that he is fanatic. He also said that boundaries depends on way of therapy. I'm in psychodynamic therapy but when I started therapy I didn't know what kind of therapy it is, I didn't even know that there are many ways of therapy. I discover it after year being in therapy

So I have a questions:

1) Is this a true that boundaries depends on way of therapy?

2) How can I touch my therapist? Some people here says that they never touch t, some says they hugs t every session. I am really confused. My therapist said that he crossed boundaries when he hugged me and he never hug me again and never hug any client. It depends on therapist own opinion?

3) Can therapist tell me his feelings for me if it's so important to me? I'm sure he did right by telling me. But he didn't tell me everything I asked. I think it would be better if my therapist talked to me openly if I ask him something. If he doesn't tell me anything about his feelings for me I'm not free, I feel like I belong to him and I don't even want to belong anyone else.

By the way- I love my therapist, he is the best for me, his words that he miss me was so healing for me, his hugs was the best I ever had felt, I will never forget that he crossed his boundaries by hugging me just to show me he cares about me, I will always be thankfull that he was so good to me.

It hurts that there are boundaries. It hurts that we can't talk openly like friends do. It unnormally hurts that I can never touch him again. It hurts that it's just a cold therapy.