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Old Jan 30, 2015, 04:40 PM
PaulaS PaulaS is offline
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I think itīs ok to ask those questions even if I wondered a little about the question about if sheīs sober. Have you noticed something that tells you she isnīt? Or does this have to do with the therapy per se? I mean a therapy addressing addictions in some way? I understand if you donīt want to answer that.

The thing about her being married or not, if you donīt want to ask her or she wonīt answer you, perhaps there are some kind of websites where you can look her up? In my country there are, you can easily check up on people by entering their first name and surname and the name of the town they live in. When you find your T (or anyone else) you can easily see if there is someone else at that same address. If that happens to be a male at your T:s age approximately itīs likely her husband or at least a male partner.

Sometimes I check those things just out of curiosity and sometimes I feel itīs like prying into the T:s life. It depends.

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Originally Posted by emwell2 View Post
I've been with the same therapist for a very long time. She is not my first. I've been thinking about asking her a couple questions of a personal nature. Is it ever appropriate to ask a therapist personal questions???? She has shared some personal information with me, such as why she got rid of her cat and that she uses a CPAP machine. But these subjects came up during regular conversation and had to do with what I was talking about.

I would like to ask her two things 1) Are you married???? 2) Are you sober????The married thing isn't really important, but being sober is.

Has anyone here ever asked their therapist personal questions???? If yes, did you get an honest answer???? Did the answer affect your treatment in any way???? Does it really matter????

I've been considering asking her these things for quite some time now. Asking would get the questions out of my head. I'm not even sure if I care about the answers.

Thank you in advance for your responses.