Echoes... Your post is a thought provoking post. I think I would have emploded had I not had here (and special internet friends) to post but I do feel or have felt ... do not laugh... that the relationship with my therapist has historically been kind of like a vacuum or a marriage of sorts. That is the connection at least to me on an emotional level of sharing and trusting. I suppose that when I started initially I did not trust anyone... I mean that. I was not talking to anyone. So that when the relationship developed it was in a vacuum as he was the one I talked with. For a long time I did not let others in.

Chicken or the egg? Which came first... the trust, the vacuum.... the relationship the feeling of needing to keep things secluded.