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Originally Posted by feileacan
Also, my relationship with my T is not simulated but very real. I don't even see how someone could simulate a relationship. Even "simulated" relationship is some kind of real relationship. If due to the "simulation" it is not honest then it just isn't very good relationship and therapy in that relationship might not be possible.
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My therapy relationships were artificial. Everything was contrived... boundaries, roles, methods, meaning, the drama, the ruptures. The therapist was a fake person, switching on or off certain behaviors and attitudes as part of a fabricated persona, then leaving the room and becoming someone else (and not like in other professions... this was a freakishly altered persona). And the next client got a similar but slightly different performance. Cheap tricks for money.
As OP said:
"I feel kind of betrayed it is likely a one-way bond, and that his caring so intense was likely fake or at least intentional."
Yep. It's an awful feeling. Intentional... that's a good way to put it.