I feel very lucky in my relationship with my trauma T. She apologizes when she thinks she pushed me too far, or in the wrong direction, or if a part gets intensely triggered, she notices that and tells me that maybe we went too fast.

I managed to tell her once about the insane anxiety I had because she never responded to an email I wrote. It took so so so much bravery on my part to tell her that. I was CONVINCED she was going to tell me that I had crossed a boundary, and that this was it for our relationship. I had officially became Too Much.

She apologized because she realized the email was in her drafts folder, and wasn’t sent. More than that, she understood completely where my anxiety and fear came from, and validated it.