I tend to think my T has less experience than me, and is personally conservative. I could be wrong, but he has very conventional comments at times like how women want children more than men do or that untrustworthy people have affairs. My view of life is more complex and less moralizing, so I wonder if he "protests too much" bc usually he is a deep thinker. I think more in terms of if he could be enticed by an affair and with whom that would be, since he has an over-the-top disgust for affairs that doesn't sound too therapisty. He seems into his marriage as a "co parent", but he like he has given up too much passion/ adventure/ sex. someone - either Faulkner or Freud- said the unconscious is never married- and man does that upset my T. I wager he spends a good amount of energy following rules and honoring his commitments in a dogged way.
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Living things don’t all require/ light in the same degree. Louise Gluck
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