I´ve seen a counselor for about three months and now it´s just one session left. I´ve known from the beginning when the contact was to end but still. As we didn´t do therapy but more of counseling I decided to ask here if it was possible to have some sporadic sessions in the future after we now end our contact.

I brought that up in an e-mail and in session she responded. She felt she wanted to be honest with me and said she´d wanted to have some contact, (as the sessions we´ve now had, not as friends or such) but it wasn´t possible because she wouldn´t have time because her husband is ill with several deceases. She said she cared for him in their home together with home nurses. She also said like "it´s a fine man but he can barely go to the toilet himself". It´s so very sad!

It´s a bit hard to take in as well as I could never know she has this difficult situation in her marriage and of course I can´t do anything about it. I kind of feel, not against her though, like "it´s so typical to find a person like her and now her situation makes it impossible to see her".

It´s not a question of asking as I´ve already done that, she had also considered mail contact but thought she wouldn´t have time to answer fully to my e-mails.

I´m glad she didn´t just use some standard answer like "no, it´s against my policy to meet with clients afterwards" and at the same time this info is hard to process. I don´t mean I need professional help for it but just sad and a bit of a strange situation.

What are your thoughts about this?