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Old May 14, 2016, 08:39 PM
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Originally Posted by scorpiosis37 View Post
My long time T retired in November, so I tried starting with a new T. A few weeks in, a friend of mine made an unwanted move on me. (He is a man and I am an out lesbian). I told the new T, and she tried to ask what I could have done differently or how I could have prevented the situation. My answer: NOTHING. If someone does something without your consent, it is NOT your fault. I never went back to that T. I am so sorry this happened to you and that your T made things worse. It is NOT empowering to ask the victim what they could do differently; that is victim blaming. T's need to stop trying to use that outdated and ineffective method and support their clients.
Thanks so much. I'm so sorry that happened to you, and I'm really glad you had the intelligence and self-respect to quit therapy with someone like that. I am still in a kind of self-blame state, and I want my T to help me past that rather than turn it into something about "responsibility." I don't know if she will be able to. This scares me because I have been seeing her for 3 years and feel very dependent. Also I am terrible at being assertive. But I think reading your message will help me express this to her a little better.