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Old Jun 23, 2018, 03:17 PM
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Originally Posted by ArtieSwimsOn View Post
I agree with others that you just wrote it! It is eloquent and said with feeling I think and it is not childish or pathetic. Ex-T (as of just a couple days ago) and I worked through this very thing at the end - my feelings for her that were very much an elephant in the room for a long time. I mean I'd said "i love you" quite a bit but had never really explained the depth of my feelings for and attachment to her until some dreams I had (we did a lot of dream work) clued her in in a big way and she brought it up and we talked through it the last several sessions. I believe it was an extremely important (although admittedly difficult!) final part of my work with her.


Like Moonlit sky said, I also thought your initial post is beautiful and explains it so well - I could so FEEL it as how I felt about my T for the longest time. I think that it is very important work to do with your T and I am sorry that you are struggling so with it. All I can tell you is once ex-t and I finally stopped dancing around the subject (her words - she said "We've been dancing around this for going on 7 years!" and it's true, we had been because it was uncomfortable for both of us!) but yeah once we did talk through it together I blossomed in a huge way.... it's amazing. I just had my final session a couple days ago and it was a beautiful goodbye. I'm glad I stuck with it long enough to get through this particular piece of the work. It was challenging and embarrassing and difficult but so very, very rewarding in the end.


I wish peace for you however you choose to discuss it with your T, and wish you the very best of outcomes with it.
Artie that was 3 years ago. I was just giving a update as I as re-reading post from years ago thinking about how far I have come and how much pain I used to be in plus there are so many post about the pain of transference and whether or not they should discuss it with their therapsit.
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When a child’s emotional needs are not met and a child is repeatedly hurt and abused, this deeply and profoundly affects the child’s development. Wanting those unmet childhood needs in adulthood. Looking for safety, protection, being cherished and loved can often be normal unmet needs in childhood, and the survivor searches for these in other adults. This can be where survivors search for mother and father figures. Transference issues in counseling can occur and this is normal for childhood abuse survivors.