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Originally Posted by here today
She cannot give you the commitment that she made, the two bold promises that she will not keep. She cannot give you what you expect from her, expectations that she created in you with her (false) sincerity. She is defensive, she is fixed on her plan to do what she wants, despite the commitment she made to you (and possibly others), so being reasonable takes a back seat to defending herself and deflecting her responsibility by pathologizing you. She cannot do otherwise -- she is morally ill. This is considered "normal" by many. It's not a problem for them.
I think I can understand why you feel like you want to continue therapy with this person -- she promised a lot, she presented a lot, you fell for the image -- I have done the same thing, over and over.
But, given what now seems to be the case about the way this person is, it sounds to me like she may very well not want to continue therapy with you, and if you want that from her then she doesn't have it and is not very willing to try, despite the effect on you. 
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I speak with her tonight. For now, I'm going to give her a benefit of the doubt that she is human and genuinely made a mistake of making two bold promises. If she cannot acknowledge that this was a poor judgment or err on her part, but instead, puts it all on the past and childhood, then yeah, I don't think I can continue working with her.