My appt is this afternoon and I'm totally convicted to tell him. I intend to tell him I found his house and if he wants to know how I'll tell him (through property tax records.) I've decided his political affiliation isn't worth talking about. If he gets upset (I don't think he will, actually) I will defend myself by reminding him nothing I learned wasn't in public domain. I draw the line at paying for any information about someone.

At the end if the day, I'm telling him for two reasons. One, I respect him a great deal and feel bad going behind his back, and two, learning this stuff about him has only hurt me and didn't stop the urge to know more. Even though I have not googled since, it's taken some effort not to. I want his help understanding my compulsive need to know about his personal life. I wish (yet don't, ugh!) I knew about his family, his car, where he goes on vacations, his favorite beer, who's in his CD player, yadda yadda.

I stand firm in my belief that really digging for our therapist's personal info is both unethical and harms the client. If our therapists wanted us to know they would tell us.

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