I would freak out. I don't think I could handle a whole weekend. How about just one evening? I would make sure the house was clean and that would be stressful. We could sit out on the back deck and share a bottle of wine. Or we could work on our cars together (a significant dream I had about him). Or we could share some fruit (another dream I had about him). I would kind of like to make my symbolic dreams about him very concrete, even though we already have what they symbolize.
I would be glad to bid him good-bye after one evening. It would be really stressful to have him there for the whole weekend. In a way, I am so very functional in the therapy room with him. Sure, he sees the truth, but I think my dysfunctionality would be more on display if he were to spend a whole weekend with me. I kind of don't want to burst the bubble, even though he knows.
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