Recently my husband and I have been arguing a lot. My child, who is 14 years old, sees a therapist on a regular basis for generalized anxiety. I decided to bring up the issue of my husband and I fighting with the therapist (my son was in the room as well) in case he wanted to talk about it and I also asked her if we could schedule a family sit down. She agreed to a family sit down for the following week. Once my son's therapy was done, I asked him how it went and if had a chance to talk about any issues concerning him. He told me that he really wanted to talk about a difficult friend he's been dealing with and that while he was talking about his friend his therapist interrupted him and changed the subject to mine and my husbands arguments. My son told me that the therapist had asked him "so who usually starts the fights, your mother or father"
I'm confused why she would ask that question and wondering how it would be helpful to my son to have to answer a question like that? I feel like she was less concerned about helping my son and more concerned about fishing out info about me and my husband or placing blame.
Am I overreacting?
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