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Originally Posted by fille_folle
@SE Wow, I think it would really bother me if my T just announced how special she is to me. It would piss me right off if she proclaimed that she is an important figure. It just seems unnecessarily grandiose. Does it bother you that he acknowledges his specialness, or is it satisfying to know that your efforts to show him how you feel have been successful?
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I think it bothers me. It seems smug. Once I asked him if I was attached to him, and he said well if you are, that is not pathological.
He is a character. I don't really know what to make of some of the things he says.
We're a similar same age, educational level, and background, but there is a huge power differential bc he is the T and I am the patient ( he is adamant it is patient not client. It is awkward to me at times like that, but there is also a goofball charm to it bc he isn't someone I would have picked out to adore in real life. Yet, the situation in which he is , I think, genuinely helping me does make him an appreciated and important figure. He isn't wrong. It is just he says that with really no irony.