Intense but important session today. R pointed out that safe places didn't really exist for me in a sense, so I have had to create them.
Funny moment came when I was on the verge of opening up some about something, just after she'd let the cat out.
'...Does the cat need to come back in?'
'Don't use the cat, Lost! Sorry, that was a bit mother-like...'
'In future, 'using the cat' will become a by word...'

We had the conversation I've been holding off on about the marked difference in our way of working now.
It was excruciating, but I am glad that it's out in the open, and that it's not a figment of my imagination.

'I am a qualified therapist, but we are still two human beings in a relationship.'