My therapy is open-ended, and I could keep going until my therapist dies, but I'm not sure I actually want to pay for therapy forever. I know the door will never be totally closed, as once I said if I had terminated therapy and then a few years later I had a bad day and contacted him he wouldn't care, and he said I was wrong.
I suppose the problem is that, while there doesn't need to be any kind of ending, certainly not an arbitrary one, it's ultimately a relationship I pay money for.
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Originally Posted by 1914sierra
I've learned that grief is part of the experience of life. And honestly, I can't imagine for a minute that losing my therapist would in any way be as painful as losing my sister. Perspective helps.
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I don't speak to my family of origin because they are all toxic and horrible. And while I think it's great to have perspective, the problem is that my T is a really great person who I feel very close to, and I can't stand the idea of having to lose him one day. Maybe I'll just go to therapy forever.