I walked out of my second marriage counseling session 20 mins in today..

When the t wants to do the same communication exercise he shared with us last week.. I stopped him and say we are very aware we need communication help, but our problems are deeper than learning to communicate. We need to get to the core of those issues before I feel safe implementing these techniques. He agrees we do, but this is only our second session and we need to establish a relationship before we get to those issues. He then went on to start talking about the technique that I stopped him from doing before. And I was done. I told him I am sorry, but I couldn’t do this today.

He did say maybe another therapist would be helpful? Perhaps he offended me. Didn’t really say anything to that. I apologized to my h and the t and left.

Maybe I was being selfish In that moment? But the fact was I felt ignored and not understood and he just moved on. He did not acknowledge that I did not feel like we were at a place that we could do this communication exercise I meant it. And ignored it like he didn’t care- he was expert and he was going to do it his way.

I am close to being done with therapists.