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She mentioned that she was still in the dark about the specifics of what actually happened. She said that I've made only general statements about it.

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Yes, if you're "sharing" yourself with someone else like you are in therapy, they need to understand too in order to share and they can't understand unless you tell them what happened. You know/see the scene in your mind's eye but they don't have that luxury. They (and you) need to see it, smell it, hear it, feel it along with you.

<font color="red"> Trigger warning </font> I made comments to my T one day, hinting at sex with a previous, male therapist as my example of something else, but I had never shared or wanted to share that with this therapist. My T didn't understand my example because I had not shared the actual, true subject, had not stated it as it was in fact. Consequently she got the whole sense of the comments and conversation "wrong" and I could tell because of the questions she was asking for clarification.

At that moment I realized my mistake and realized I had two choices: I could correct the mistake and clarify, tell her about the sex with the therapist or I could pretend to be lost or confused or talking about something else and cover the whole thing over again. If I pretended, I realized, for me, therapy would be worthless; I would have ruined the relationship between my therapist and myself. I could either tell her and hope the relationship was a true one and she'd "stay" or I could get up and leave and terminate on my end. I told her what the example referred to and there was this enormous, scary pause :-) Then she quietly stated that she didn't think either of us wanted or needed to discuss that in this time and place and we continued, still a therapy team working well together.