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Originally Posted by *Laurie*
Basically, I want to avoid a situation in which I am 'mothering' my therapist. It's easy and natural for me to caretake and I believe it would be especially easy to caretake a young woman who is 20+ years younger than I am. I already caretake plenty of people in my life and I don't want to spend my time in therapy boosting my therapist's ego and comforting her losses. Some of that already went on during the first session yesterday. So, we'll see....
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Talk to her about this! It's not really about her, is it? It's about
you and your patterns of relating - and that's good stuff to address in therapy. It could be really reparative for you to build a different relationship with her despite your urges to 'caretake'.