Okay so now she is going back on it and confusing me. She texted me a few hours after our session and said
LCM: "Listen, I was thinking and I don't agree wth your other therapists warning you [about going to concerts that I am participating in]. It teaches you that you can control your environment and you can't. It's doesn't serve you in the long run. You need to know that life cannot be controlled and that you must face constant challenges and things that upset you. Does this make sense?"
Me: "Yes, but I still think you should have told me. There are so many things in life that I can't control and I need to feel like you consider my feelings and won't just do something that risks randomly violating my personal space without talking to me first or at a minimum having this conversation. Yes, I know we could run into each other wherever and I need to be okay with that and deal with whatever discomfort that might bring me. You can't sacrifice your own life for my feelings and you do have every right to come here. It is a public place. However, it's not like a restaurant or something because I spend about 50% of my time here and effectively do live here and I know you know that. I didn't feel like you took the time to consider how seeing you at work randomly on my own territory might have affected me and I wished that you would have told me about it beforehand or at least brought up the idea of maybe running into you someday and how we would deal with that. If we had had this conversation before this happened even if it wasn't specific, I wouldn't have been completely blindsided."
No response. I am frustrated. Why couldn't she have just left things the way they were earlier instead of reopening it?
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