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Originally Posted by Pennster
Are you trying to ask someone specific these questions? Might be best to be direct.
Or do you mean hypothetically?
Hypothetically, I could imagine someone might be ambivalent about the individual one goes to for therapy, or be not attached or in love with them. I don't even think that's unusual, or that it would necessarily stop them from being useful. Paying them money isn't really an optional part of the deal - you engage them, you pay. And I complain about a lot of people. My landscaper for example- he sucks, but I continue to pay him money as he does a job that I don't feel like doing myself, but I wish he would do it better.
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I have an AWESOME T and even I complain about her in the "Dear T" thread.
This IS an internet forum on psychotherapy so I would guess that it would make sense that people come here and express their ambivalence about their therapist. Its a highly charged relationship. I think lots of people have mixed feelings about their therapist even when they realize the therapist is helping. For other people it may be they don't necessarily like the therapist but they need someone to unburden to and the T does the job well enough that it is not worth the hassle of finding a new T