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Originally Posted by Leah123
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.
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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.