Thank you all for the responses.
It is very weird that he forgot. We had been working up to that level of detail for some time and he's never forgotten anything before. He even remembers little details from years ago and people I've only mentioned in passing. His reasons for forgetting were weird, too, I admit. If this had happened a few months instead of a few years in, I would certainly have bolted, but we had a great relationship until then and I didn't want to condem him for this slip up. As I mentioned, it's a pattern for me, so I wanted to work through it and I thought we had.
He did seem genuinely sorry, embarrassed, and just as confused as me. He said it was something he was going to discuss with his own mentor. So, we worked through it and I thought we were good. I did bring it up again a few weeks ago and asked him if he had talked about it with his mentor and he said he hadn't and didn't say much more about it. I think that's when the whole situation started bugging me again.
I feel like I'm kind of over the csa (or not over it, but just mentally exhausted with it), or at least not wanting to go back there at the moment, because I feel like I've done a lot of work myself over the past few months on it while we've been talking about other things in session. It's kind of good that I've been able to work on it on my own, but then I'm kind of like...why am I seeing a therapist?
I think a break would be good, but I've also got a lot of big things coming up in April that I'd like his support on.
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