Hi all,

Really appreciate your responses and glad I started a convo.

Navigating transference can be really difficult. Like I said I've spoken to T about my feelings, and we've concluded feelings are right or wrong they just simply are.

I can work fine with my T and my romantic feelings have significantly diminished. For me the key is to remember to not deny or overindulge my feelings. Just simply let them be.

Sometimes I hate the label of transference. Therapy is intimate, and could I not just legitimately love T. Does it have to be some representation of my past or could it just be a totally human reaction to intimacy.

I think T would agree that as long as I don't have an delusions that boundaries will be crossed and that I'm not consumed by these thoughts, that they are perfectly natural and human.

We do a lot of inner child work so there is an emphasis on connecting to T. What has helped me is the remind myself that, therapy is my space to have Whatever feelings arise.

My inner child has the opportunity to love and feel loved in that space. Outside of that though is off limits, and I can live with that!


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