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Originally Posted by LabRat27
I think there's some jealousy or competitiveness there too, because I care as much about the other patients' impression of me as I do my impression of them. I kind of want them to be a bit jealous?
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I admit that when I left session Sunday, when T had kept me over a few minutes, the younger woman waiting in the waiting room who stood up when I opened the door, presumably expecting T--I looked at her apologetically, but there was also this part of me that maybe wanted her to feel a little bit jealous, that he'd kept me over slightly. It's interesting, because on my normal therapy days, it's a teen (or early 20s?) boy or a married couple after me, and I don't feel that "wanting them to be jealous" thing with them. I think I just see a female (particularly a younger or more attractive one) as sort of competition in a way. I felt the same once when I saw a younger female who was dressed rather provocatively being walked out by ex-MC (his usual client before us was older woman and after us was a teen male).