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Originally Posted by susannahsays
Honestly Artie, I don't think you misinterpreted. I think she purposely, if not necessarily maliciously, misled you. When she made the *****y comment about how you don't really know her, she had stepped out of her professional persona to lash out at you. For some reason, she felt peeved that you took her at her word. Jmo.
ETA - my first comment assumed that the therapist hasn't literally told you otherwise.
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I do feel like she stepped out of her persona for sure during our last few sessions. (Sorry I deleted the stuff earlier. I got on a roll and just wrote way too much. Didn't want to take over the thread that much.) I kind of appreciate that she did though, honestly, it made it easier for me to leave. Even though I'm the one that instigated the ending, it still wasn't easy to do and her being less of the "her" that I thought I knew was helpful in that regard and I have a sneaking suspicion she knew that it would be. Therapy with her was my first (and only!!!!!) long-term therapy, so I had no idea what I was doing or what to expect during the ending.
And that was part of the problem, too. I told her that I wished we had talked more about/planned more for an eventual ending so I would have known better what the heck to expect. Maybe she took that as a criticism.