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Old Aug 09, 2019, 01:27 PM
Anonymous41549
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Originally Posted by DP_2017 View Post
i think love is quite a drastic feeling and i don't doubt T's care but they love their family, they love their friends there is no need for them to love clients. why do so many have a need to be loved by T's? why isn't care enough?

why would you want to pay someone to love you? quite sad really
I think there is a naivety in this post. I don't think love in therapy is about conscious need or deliberate decision. I don't think most people experience intimacy in such calculated and planned ways. I don't pay my therapist to love me and what she has described to me is not something for which we contracted or something which I (or, it would seem, she) expected.

I understand that you don't value relationships and that you are hurt by the experience of your therapist not loving you when you invested so heavily in that relationship. That is hurtful and hard stuff. However, you might want to consider having some sensitivity for those of us who are struggling with love in therapy (either the longing for it or the suspicion of it). Describing clients as "sad" for struggling with emotional nuances (even though you prefer broadstroke and black/white thinking) could have a hurtful impact. I didn't like reading it.