Yes, exactly that! When I told my H I was so upset, the first time we stopped working together after she'd been diagnosed, his reaction was 'So? She's just your therapist.' Like I shouldn't care about her. Needless to say I haven't bothered to tell him she has died. I couldn't handle the invalidating comments right now.

I emailed her son (who is also a therapist) to give him my condolences. I never really expected to hear back from him, but he replied almost straight away. He thanked me for getting in touch, said my email had made him cry and that she had mentioned me to him in terms of being a long-term client who she thought a lot of. Reading that made me cry! It felt comforting to reach out to someone else who knew her. You are right, most people won't understand the nature of the relationship and because it's 1:1, we generally don't have anyone we can talk to about that person.

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