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Originally Posted by GingerbreadWoman
Anyone else feel this way about discussing things with a male T?
I stopped seeing females because it felt like they were a little too focused on being empathetic and not at all focused on problem solving. I know these are gender stereotypes, but they happened to ring true in my experiences. All my female Ts ever wanted to do was talk about how I felt.
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My experiences are to some extent the opposite: I feel uncomfortable talking about emotions regardless of whom I am talking to, but with a female the discomfort is such that it becomes impossible. And neither of the female Ts I have seen have displayed much interest in finding out the root of that. My current, male T on the other hand does ask me about my feelings - but not to the exclusion of other things. In any case, I can talk about emotions with him, and that's in part because he is male. I don't think either your experiences or mine are unusual.