I only now started talking to my T about the relationship to a ballet teacher I used to have. I was very vulnerable at the time because my father had just died. I thought more about it and wonder if some things that happened might count as sexual harassment.
What also needs to be said about this teacher is that he was an alcoholic and sometimes drank in between classes and a few times showed up to class so drunk, we couldn´t do class and had to leave.
So once when he hugged me goodbye, he squeezed my butt. Once he kissed me on the lips when saying goodbye (though not a "real" kiss, more like a peck like you´d give your mother), he asked me about my first sexual encounter saying it had to do with the way I could express my emotions in my dancing and he once said, !though it was meant as a joke!, that next time I should come to class naked. But this was because he said I shouldn´t wear warm-up wear in class and I said I was more comfortable this way.
I need to add though that at the time I was over 18 already. Anyways he said that if he wasn´t my teacher he would ask me to go out for a drink. It needs to be said he was about 65 and had a wife who was also teaching that was about 30 or so...
My therapist thinks that there were some oedipus complex things going on there, because in spite of everything I always wanted him to like me best etc...
All these things said, I need to also point out that he was graduate of a world famous Russian ballet school and had extremely great knowledge of Russian classical dance and method... which is why I stayed with him in the first place.
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