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Old Jul 16, 2014, 12:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Leah123 View Post
Maybe it's not that what you want is unreasonable but that you're trying to get something from therapy that can only come from working on a relationship in the outside world, like with a partner, as you alluded to wanting a mother/partner/friend/sister. That your attachment needs need to be met through a more regular, typical attachment.

There's something very deeply satisfying about having a partner or very close, deep female relationships like that which can be replicated in therapy, but only an hour at a time, occasionally.

It's like prostitution in one sense, emotional prostitution, that surrogacy.

I don't mean that in an offensive way or as a slur. I think escorts do respectable work and important, but that they act as more of a bridge, if anything, a temporary substitute, not a partner.
What you wrote makes sense. I don't have that with any one person but I have some of it with different people. I have a couple of close friends. I admit I used my Ts to try to get that. It's my pattern. It doesn't work and makes me feel worse but my T helps with other problems in my life. I'm not ready to quit yet.
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