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I wonder how many couples sessions you might need before this has been resolved or whatever you might care to describe it.

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Do you mean how long will it take to sort out the confidentiality issue? We have another couples session later this week, and I'm not sure I will even bring it up there. But I will bring it up at the end of this week in my individual session and maybe it will all get settled then. SecretGarden, it warmed me a bit to read that you had been thinking about my post when you were out driving with your brother. Like, hey, I exist for SG outside of the board. Cool! Thanks.

Winterrose, thanks for your comments and support. Yes, some therapists do overlapping couples and individual therapy, depending on their philosophy and therapy orientation. My T is a Family Systems Therapist, so is used to seeing different groupings of any one family. In addition to my individual and our couples, we may also bring in a daughter/parent combo at some time in the future. There are pros and cons to doing couples and individual with the same therapist, and we did discuss this before beginning the couples, so I knew what I was getting into. (although I resisted it for a long time!) I have seen a lot of benefit and some of the cons as well, but the positive has outweighed any negative so far.

Tonight, my husband and I have scheduled our own "meeting" to work on some of the issues in preparation for our couples therapy session later this week. So that we can really make good use of our time with T. Sometimes it is just kind of awful having to work with this person you don't really even like anymore and wish would just leave your life.