My therapist/mentor at university has upset me a couple of times, and I can never really confront her about it properly without revealing my transference.
Last week she forgot about me. She said the week before that she would text me to let me know if she wanted me in at 1pm or 1:30 next time, and then she never texted me. When I feel insecure about a relationship I tend to come up with ridiculous "potential explanations" as to why the person would forget about me (or not respond to my texts, etc.), and this was no exception. I somehow convinced myself that it was personal, that she simply didn't want to see me or was annoyed with me or something. So instead of doing the rational thing of texting her
myself, I did nothing.
It really upsets me that she forgot about me, but it upsets me even more that it upsets me so much in the first place (yikes that sounds ridiculous). I'm just one of her students. She simply forgot
one of her students.
I'm seeing her tomorrow, and I am trying to think of a way to talk to her about this without revealing just how important she is to me and the fact that I love her because that makes me feel so pathetic. Maternal transference sucks. I want it to go away, but it just seems to be getting worse. The idea of talking to her about that actually terrifies me and I really don't think I can do it.