I'm gonna get carpet bombed here. . .LOL Gracey, always the devils advocate

It is soooooooo hurtful when someone forgets something that is important to us. I would have been hurt as well, and have been. My T has "forgotten" once or twice in the last several years, but after talking about it and upon further examination, his reasons were valid.

Imagine, if you were at work, and had a really rough day. Your coworkers knew that your job could stress you out and you "forgot" an afternoon appointment coming into your office. Things happen. It is certainly worth discussion, but be careful making it all about you. Something could have been going on behind the scenes that he didn't share; the woman he was with could have been in crisis and he couldn't have said anything to you about that. It always hurts when we feel like we're the one being cut short, but if he had given you the entire hour, then everyone else in the afternoon would have run late as well, and some people can't afford to be late back to work, or picking up kids, stuff like that.

Perhaps you can say to him next time, "I realize you forgot about my appoinment, and I'll get over that, but how can we prevent this from happening again? This time with you is valuable to me (after all you ARE paying for it) and I work very hard to get the time off of work, and get here on time each week." The odds are good that he'll apologize, and you guys can move on. I would caution about making a whole session be about this; doing that tends to harbor resentment and unforgiveness (the F word!) and it becomes so much harder to move on. I speak from experience on this.

Good luck to you.