I got my T the first time, relative new out of the box :-) she'd only been a therapist around 5+ years. Her first name is "formal" and "complicated" so I started thinking of her by her first initial and in my journal I'd refer to her that way, as "E". Well, one day I told her that. . . and she had a fit, going on how that wasn't her name, respectful, etc. So I got scared and switched, even in my journal to writing/making myself refer to her by her whole first name again.

So I see her 9 years, don't see her 9 years, and see her again (for 9 years) so somewhere in that 27 years, around year 22 :-) I "remind" her of that incident and tell her how scared I got, etc. and this time she reacts "appropriately" and apologizes for going off on me :-) and confirmed I had been using her initial as a "pet" name and that was great. . . but I still use her whole name and get anxious thinking about it.