LoL. I just got done with therapy this evening.

Two things.

The therapist said that when she said, "I'm not like that," she was referring to an analogy that I brought up. The conversation with her back in May went like this, "You can't stay in xxxxxx for one year. The longer you stay in xxxxxx, you'll find more reasons to stay there. It's kind of like how some people who go on long vacations and not return and end up living in that place." She responded, I'm not like that." The therapist clarified that when she said she's "not like that," she was referring to the vacation part. She said that she wasn't passing a comment about the earlier part in regards to her finding more reasons to stay there. Now I feel less betrayed; instead, I feel stupid. LoL.

The therapist also said that when she said that she would give her patients a year's notice, it was a statement of intent, not a promise. I said, "Okay. But that statement of intent was sincere and grounded deeply in a principle of care towards your patients, right?" She said yes it was. I asked her so if circumstances would allow you to come back for a year, would you? She threw her head back a bit and said maybe, but it's all hypothetical and that that statement of intent doesn't "overwrite over other obligations." I'm still thinking this one through.