I don't like to swear or to hear myself swear. I can remember a teacher telling us that people who swear aren't smart enough to use other words. Kind of true but there is more to it than that. So I don't like to but I do.
I think it's really important actually, because it can say I'm angry and this is the only way I can express or acknowledge that anger, or frustrtation or dissapointment, etc.
But when I do, invariably T chooses to repeat those words back to me. When she does I cringe and laugh at the same time because it sounds so out of place to hear her swear! The first time she did that it made me feel at ease that she wasn't upset that I said what I'd said.
Did she say more? Did you and T talk about swearing, about your swearing, about her aversion to it?
Some people are very very angry when they swear. Some T's cannot deal with very angry clients. A psychologist I saw for a while a few years ago told me she had a client she had referred to someone else because the client was someone who was very very angry and she didn't feel she was the therapist who could help him. So not all clients and T's are a good fit, for many reasons.
Do you feel like this T is a good fit for you?
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