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Old Dec 04, 2018, 02:35 PM
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Originally Posted by GeekyOne View Post
DP, as others pointed out (and you have acknowledged several times), your relationship with your T was not a therapeutic one. Perhaps because it was more... jovial, less deep, it is easier for him to separate.

I have had decent friendships with coworkers - people I have confided in and cried in front of - and then, when I moved jobs, those people just... stopped talking to me. Not out of malice, that I can tell - and we had emotional(-ish) goodbyes - but just... we don't talk anymore. They don't initiate contact and honestly I don't either. It doesn't bother me though, because we didn't have a deep connection beyond the office. I'm not at that office anymore. It's more... a change in the daily routine. *shrug* Maybe that's your T's perspective? Not a therapeutic approach, but an explanation nonetheless.
Same here. Some true friendships are situational, and that doesn't make them insincere. Probably , if you went back to that job, you would go back to the friendship.

However, the therapist client relationship is supposed to transcend friendship and be very different from it, as friendship is reciprocal and not com modifiable by the hour.
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