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Originally Posted by Lrad123
Anyway, when I was a teenager (many years ago) a couple year after my dad died I saw a therapist for a single visit. I went to his house where he saw clients and when I arrived, he said I would be seeing his wife instead, because as a young female they had decided it would be better for me to see another female.
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I think it might be useful to bring it up because I think this was a lousy thing to do to a teenager who just lost her father. Idiot therapists. Side benefit might be that you might learn for sure whether it was him or not. Don't you think this early experience, especially so close in time to your father's death, might impact how you think and feel about therapy?
But, no, my T isn't married to another T. He's married to a very successful artist, and his previous wife was also an artist. He has no children. I think he's in a good marriage now but I don't think that's because he's a T, I think it's because he did some work on himself in and out of therapy and created better stuff in his life in all kinds of ways. I think therapists might be like the shoemaker's children who have no shoes-- like the lawyers I meet who do stupid legal stuff in their own personal life, without wills and such. Like the cardiologist who smokes and drinks. Etc. Every profession has its blind spots in people's personal lives, therapists are no exception. When I was in law school I had a group of friends who included clinical psych students; they were no better at relationships than the rest of us. I do think people in various professions (lots of lawyers married to lawyers for example) marry people in the same profession because that's who they tend to meet. Maybe therapists are more likely to marry therapists, but I doubt it's all that more different for them and I doubt their divorce rate is any lower than anybody else's. Haven't seen any stats on that though.