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Old Mar 07, 2007, 07:34 PM
pinksoil
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I'm married, too. My husband has always been cool with me going to therapy... it's not really the therapy that has caused any discord within our marriage, as it was the actually problems that I have experienced through the years. Also, I saw in your post that you said you have been in therapy for a year-- when I met my husband I had already been in treatment for about three years. So he was pretty much just used to me this way!

Maybe you can share with your husband, to an extent. I mean you don't have to share the details of the session because that is a private thing for you, but I usually try to highlight a couple of things for my husband, even if they aren't specific-- just tell him about some of the really cool, mysterious ways in which therapy works.

Do you think he would feel different if you had a female T? I wonder sometimes how my husband feels that I share so much stuff, technically with another male. If my husband went to T and he had a female, I'd probably get insanely weird about that, but then again-- that's probably one reason I need therapy, haha.

Something to think about though-- even though my husband never had a problem with therapy (although sometimes I'd tell him something my T said and he'd say: "Oh, I already told you that... why couldn't you listen to me?"), I know that my husband takes it very personally that he can't make me "better." He feels responsible for my happiness. Maybe your husband feels this way too. Maybe he feels badly that he can't change the way things are for you, and that you had to turn to someone else. Perhaps some of his feelings are guilt, anger, or frustration. I know that my husband takes it very hard when he realizes that he can't always fix things for me.