Well, I give someone credit where credit is due and it's good your husband is showing progress. But.... someone who's been abusive for that long doesn't just magically change in 2 weeks. It's a process of learning new ways to respond to others in different situations and it will take time.
And hurt certainly doesn't diminish in 2 weeks. Verbal abuse cuts very deep and rebuilding trust is a process.
I think it's perfectly understandable how you feel right now. Also it takes time to get to the feelings about the abuse if you've had to supress and deny to get through it. Those feelings can be harder to bring up than to supress, even in therapy and it can be a start just to say that you feel that you haven't been able to really express your feelings fully.
Your therapist would be better serving you to help you talk about your fears, anger, depression, conflicts, lost trust, unmet needs. She would want to encourage you if and when YOU feel ready to meet his physical needs.
I think I would feel that the therapist is putting his needs first. She needs to know exactly how you feel about this. Taking a copy of your post with you to the next session might be helpful to begin talking about it.
You want to feel supported by your psychologist. It's why we seek them out. Help her by telling her all the things you said here.
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