There are a lot of reasons that I don't share this with my husband. Therapy is an extremely personal thing for me - more personal than anything else I do. When I share this with my husband, it turns brings him into the therapy even if he's not in the room with us. I would feel like suddenly I have a timeline one how quickly I should be making progress. I'd feel like I would need to justify that it is working for me. These aren't things that he would say, necessarily, but they are things that I would feel if I involved him in it by telling him.

The fact that you go weekly and really enjoy it makes me think that perhaps you enjoy talking about your therapy sessions to him? I could be wrong on that. But if you do, perhaps he thinks you would want him to talk about his sessions and maybe he doesn't want to talk about it outside of the room.

I process things in my head - not by speaking. I like to have plenty of time alone with my thoughts as I process the more difficult parts of life. My mom is dying of cancer but I don't talk to people about that - it's private and I don't need to talk to my friends about how it makes me feel. It's just part of who I am as a person. It doesn't mean that I don't value my friends or those relationships - it just is how I process things. Same goes with therapy. I process my stuff on my own and involve him when it concerns him.

It's hard for people to understand introverts like me sometimes but please realize that it's not because of YOU, it's because of HIM. It might just be how he processes his world. (For example, right this moment, I am alone in the bedroom spending time surfing the web and listening to podcasts because i need a break from being with people. I'm not upset or hiding anything, I just need time with me.)

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