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Originally Posted by comrademoomoo
If I say, "I am angry with you", she responds in a very therapisty way and talks about welcoming my anger. That infuriates me further and feels stupid. If I act out my anger rather than describe it, she becomes defensive and we often find ourselves in a rupture. Of course, I can't always vocalise how I feel because acting it out is more familiar and so we are often in trouble.
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How would you like her to respond? I always wanted to sort out with my T the thing that I was actually angry about, and for my T to acknowledge my hurt at something she’d inadvertently done or said to be valid, and possibly give some reflection on her part of the rupture.