Yesterday's session --

I am supposed to call (usual monthly call) the family today and current T enquired how I was feeling about it.

I told her (yet again) that I feel like someone's punched me in the gut.

So, she (yet again) asked me why I don't just cut off contact.

Not sure what happened to my brain, but I asked her then if she really truly thought I didn't owe anything to my parents / family and had no duty towards them? Or, was it just stuff she was saying as a therapist?

In response, she walked up to her desk, pulled out a few pieces of paper -- notes from listening to a podcast that another client of hers (same ethnicity as me but grew up in the US) told her to listen to about how there are transactional relationships (she sorta explained it but I was largely lost by then) in my culture.

She prefaced the whole thing by saying that she can't say anything because she's from a different culture and she doesn't belong to my culture etc.

The session pretty much went downhill from there.