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Old Apr 30, 2018, 06:50 PM
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Originally Posted by ElectricManatee View Post
I admit it's a bit tricky because you have to be really confident that your T is thoughtful and self-aware and will under no circumstances gaslight you. That's the only way you can truly pick through distortions in your perception. It's a high level of trust, but your T sounds pretty solid.

I also think it's fine to admit that you liked the whole thing, including the way his following up with the jasper made you feel. I absolutely love when my T remembers something like that and mentions it or follows up later. I've been surprised at how talking about the good things that happen between us has strengthened/deepened my connection with my T. I used to have a lot of trouble with that kind of mushy, full-scale vulnerability. I felt like admitting that something was important or touching to me would make the other person denigrate it or take it away. But my T usually makes it a point to keep doing those things, which makes me understand that hiding the ways my emotional needs get met is just a useless holdover from my childhood, and I can mostly let it go.
Yep - I have been set back a fair bit by T1's defensiveness and argumentative nature (and seeming lack of reflective capability and/or self-awareness). It's sometimes hard for me to accept that T is not going to behave in the same way - although he has been great and totally different so far.

The part of me that enjoyed it doesn't want to discuss it further. She feels that would ruin it and she would also feel deeply ashamed to admit to enjoying it. I don't have to listen to her though - or at least, I don't have to act accordingly.

The shame is always a risk for me though. It tends to make me somewhat dissociative.
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