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Originally Posted by sjkero
i don't usually post, but i'm feeling super out of sorts right now and i need someone to calm me down.
i am obsessed with my t... i admire her and fantasize about being in her 'real' life as a friend, and i just have her on this pedestal which i know is not realistic but i cant help it. i overly obsess about her life and am always thinking 'what is she doing now.'
long story short, i arrived at my session super early last week and our paths crossed in such a way that i saw her smoking before our session. now, i have NOTHING against people who smoke, but i was so shocked by the experience that i can't shake it. i NEVER EVER EVER thought she would be a smoker. and, again, it's not the smoking that bothers me, but the fact that it 'humanized' her and she was no longer this 'perfect' being to me....she was just someone 'going about her day' and it made me realize how much i don't know about her, and how can i talk so intimately to someone who now feels like a stranger to me? there is so much more to this... in terms of how i've obsessed and gone to extremes to learn about her (behind her back) which i think makes this feel like an even bigger shock to me. i thought i knew her 100%... clearly that's not possible but i'm so shaken now i dont know what to do
* i have to add i've been seeing her for 5 yrs now which makes this so much more overwhelming to me
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i think a lot of people experience this at one point or another in therapy. i did the same thing idolizing my T, but the more i found out about her served to "humanize" her for me, to help me see her as a real person and not a fantasy character. i liked being able to start seeing her as a person. this is a good thing.
gross habit, if i saw my T smoking I'd tell her it was disgusting- I guess I have no manners- but still. you need to see her as human and fallible so you dont fall so hard when and if she makes a stumble that knocks her from the pedestal.