My husband loves me but didn't understand my need to be in therapy. I went for 9 years and we paid out-of-pocket for 2 sessions a week. I love him too :-) and don't like to make him unhappy. But we respect each other's needs and decisions. I did go back to work full-time in order to pay for the therapy and get us better health insurance and a 401K plan, etc. and that made him a little less unhappy :-)

I think those we live with can see it as a threat to their abilities to care for us? Too, if they have never had therapy and don't understand it, it can look "foreign" like a religion/cult or something. It's an "interest" in ourselves and some people find that threatening too. We could grow, change, and move away from that person and they don't want that?