Okay so I'm glad I'm not the only one who'd be weirded out. I can't remember exactly what led up to her saying that, but she always tries to talk about how she feels about everyone, up to and including the therapist. From what I've read about group therapy, that's really kind of what you're supposed to do. With her, it seems like she's trying really really hard to do exactly that. The book I read on group therapy gave names to the different types of patients -- I would say that she is the "therapist-helper" type. She tries to talk to other people the way the therapist would (asking them to clarify how they feel, etc.). It's a little annoying, but it's also very helpful to those of us who are new (she gets me engaged in the conversation -- something that's really hard for me to get into because I'm so shy). She's also really nice so don't think I'm trying to say she's all pretentious or anything. But I guess I was just taken aback by being that open about her feelings for the therapist. Am I supposed to aspire to being that open? I don't know if I'd think it was a good thing or a bad thing.

As far as jealousy, I think I'm jealous of the fact that our therapist will know that she loves him. With me it'll never be a certainty (though he's insightful enough to figure that out I guess).

I hear "sibling rivalry" is common in group therapy.....

This whole group therapy thing is messing with my head!

Sidony