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Old May 15, 2010, 10:24 AM
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Mine doesn't really know when I go, and I prefer to not discuss it with him. It's private, and my bf is the controlling type and aslo wanted to know if he was being discussed.
It really is my therapy, and we only talk about my relationship if I'm going through stress in my relationship, as this affects my BP, and my pdoc's decision arounds meds

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Old May 15, 2010, 07:12 PM
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my ex used to ask, but she also used to drop me off at pdoc's when i first started going. i was in such bad shape, i needed someone to get me there and get me home.

i havent been with anyone since. it was nice that my ex would ask how things went, but she also would make some disparaging comments about pdoc (which was meant to be humourous) but im terribly protective of people i like and it used to hurt me. i know she didnt mean it malliciously though.
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Old May 16, 2010, 09:06 AM
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Thank you for all the replies. My H seems kind of normal, I guess. Brightheart, he sounds like yours. He doesn't know how, and is not interested in going deep. I asked him yesterday why he doesn't ask me about therapy, and he said that I'm not interested in what he is--sports and politics. That is, I don't listen to him either. That's true. I have to be more interested in what he wants to talk about.

As far as therapy, he thinks I'm an "addict" and that I'm repeating what I had with Bt. He thinks IFS and EMDR are just more of the same, and that I just should get on with my life. But he's resigned to the fact that I want to stay in therapy, so basically he ignores it.
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Old May 16, 2010, 01:59 PM
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I asked him yesterday why he doesn't ask me about therapy, and he said that I'm not interested in what he is--sports and politics. That is, I don't listen to him either. That's true. I have to be more interested in what he wants to talk about.
Do you have some topics that you both like to discuss? Maybe you could focus on those, and it would be easy for both of you, instead of each person feeling obliged to talk about things he/she has no interest in. Like current events? Movies? Books? The plans for the garden? Your jobs? Your own job search, Rainbow? When my H and I were together, he liked talking about his job with me--both his actual work and all the personalities there--and I was interested in it, so this worked for us. (I always wished he was interested in my job too, but that's another story.) Finding some common topics of interest might help you feel more connected and less like "he doesn't care about me or he would talk about therapy with me."

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As far as therapy, he thinks I'm an "addict" and that I'm repeating what I had with Bt. He thinks IFS and EMDR are just more of the same, and that I just should get on with my life. But he's resigned to the fact that I want to stay in therapy, so basically he ignores it.
It sounds like he has his opinions on this topic, and you don't like them (I wouldn't either). It is far better for him to drop the subject and let things be, than to keep harping on his complaints or trying to get you to change your mind and come over to his view. Given his views, I think he is being respectful and giving you space on this topic. You each have your views on this subject, which are antithetical, so letting sleeping dogs lie seems a good solution.
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