I think going to therapy is helping me connect with people. This is not something I had expected. I think it helps that I am not depressed anymore, but also I think connecting once a week with my T is helping me develop "connection skills" that are transferring to some of my other relationships. I don't manage a spectacular connection with T each session, but more often than not, we do connect, and I have learned to do it better with him acting as the knowledgable "other half" of the pair. In the last few days, I've had some really good moments of connection with my oldest daughter and realized we really are close, and it makes me feel good to know that I have managed to develop a better relationship with her than I had with my own mother (not just repeating the patterns of my childhood). And this weekend I forged some moments of real connection with my own mother, which is like an unheard of thing. It's like wow, where did that come from?

Has anyone else found that the skills at connecting they develop in relating to their therapist have transferred to other relationships? Or is this just totally self evident and I am the last one in on this?