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Originally Posted by Mactastic
I'm sorry to be redundant, I know there are similar threads out there but I want to start my own.
My therapist has tight boundaries. I have been seeing him a year and can name the things he's disclosed (all insignificant, except for the length of time he did his own therapy) on one hand. It can be maddening. This past winter I confessed to looking him up on Facebook and it went well. He didn't bat an eye and told me he expects it. I felt like a huge weight had been lifted.
But I'm coming to see I'm still carrying weight. What he doesn't know is that I also used Linkedin to find out his high school and previous jobs. I think I was trying to figure out how old he is, which I think I did, assuming he started college at 18 and went through undergrad in 4 years. Using voting records I was also able to see how he is registered (Republican, Democrat, Independent - no shock there, lol.) I also used public records to search for his home through local tax records. This is the part I'm deeply ashamed of. Before he bought his house photos of the exterior and inside were posted on a realty site and I sifted through those. In a way, I've seen the inside of his house and I feel like such a creeper!
Once I did that I genuinely stopped googling. Once in a blue moon I would peek at his FB page (locked tight) just to see his picture but I realized how much extensive googling has hurt me so I refrained from anything else.
I have a session tomorrow and I really want to come clean. Am I crazy to tell him the part of the realty site? The voting records? Should I leave well enough alone and confess only to the tax records? All this is technically under public domain but it really irks me. If you're wondering, no, I never drove by his house and I didn't write down the address. Where he lives is but a distant memory and I only remember the city, which is in an affluent, quaint area
Please offer advice or personal experiences with this. Tomorrow's coming fast!
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ooooh, public records,. how do i find those online? I want to look up t's house too! lol .
i know you didnt mean to give me ideas,but ... :-(
i wouldnt tell about the tax records. it just seems like too much...unless youre certain your relationship is solid.