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Originally Posted by tomatenoir
Because the client is not a dependant child in the therapist's care. The therapist has not made a marriage vow to the client, to love and protect them forever.
They've made a business contract with the client - - to provide therapy sessions for payment. They have not promised to be there for them forever, no matter what.
I have a trusting relationship with my therapist. But I've never assumed that means one of us will never leave.
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I find this disingenuous. We've all seen the hundreds of posts here describing overt dependency situations, with clients regressing into child-like emotions, and many more describing poisonous abandonment and betrayal episodes. Are these feelings wrong, and in need of correction by the next therapist/jedi master, who will explain to the hapless client that it's just business?
Some therapists say they can re-parent you. Many suggest you ought to trust them, even if you trust no one else. Many promise to transform your life and all that other bullsh*t. Many are tweaking unconscious impulses and needs with their role playing. This is the general milieu that gives rise to abandonment feelings.