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Old Aug 11, 2017, 08:53 PM
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I'm of the thinking it has nothing to do with this therapist. I know he's the object of your attention, but what about yourself are you avoiding by focusing on this?

Is this repitition compulsion? What trauma/relationship are you playing out, in order to get a better outcome this time around?

Perhaps it's time to look at the root issue underneath the wound and not so much the current infection.

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Night is so hard.

I've, of course, been thinking of S...and our text exchange. How he made no mention of thinking of me (except to say he knew he'd hear from me), said nothing of wishing me well or hoping I was ok, didn't ask anything about me at all. Never responded to my saying I was taking another month. No "take care of yourself; we'll be ok, I promise" this time. Just, silence. Nothing. As if being without me is nothing to him. I am nothing to him.

My heart keeps breaking and breaking and breaking. I'm having a really hard time trying to decide if this is who and how he has always been. He used to have such sweet, comforting words for me. How is the person who held me while I cried in his office or wiped the tears from my face in the parking lot the same one who ignored me while I cried in a restaurant?

Is it because I tore him apart? Did I change everything with that? Turned against him, and he couldn't handle it? If I'd stayed the pleading, clinging child and not raged at him, would he still be my S? The comforting one? This hurts. I cannot even describe how much this hurts. I used to hug him and take a big, deep breath, and feel all of the tension I'd ever carried leave my body. He was my everything. My mom, my dad. He made everything better. And it's gone. All of it is gone. It's too much. It's just too much.

How do I still have tears to cry over this? How unfair that he gets to be (seemingly) happy and content while I break over and over and over all because of him. How could I ever really be friends with a person who has hurt me so deeply? Why can I not just see him for who he is, what he's done, and shun him in anger and fury? How can I still so deeply love someone who does not love me and only continues to hurt me? I want to stop loving him.

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Old Aug 11, 2017, 11:53 PM
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AllHeart AllHeart is offline
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A few things...

Remember: This is not your fault. You did nothing wrong. Nothing you did or didn't do would have changed the outcome of this situation. Your t is severely unwell. No sane t would have ever violated the boundaries so badly to begin with. He is sick.

Get mad. GET fu#%ing FURIOUS. I'm not telling you what to do, but, you seriously need to get that anger and fury out. Let it come. The longer you suppress it, the longer you continue to suffer. It's ok to be angry with him and still love him, or, hate him. Just allow your feelings come and work them out. I would recommend getting a punching bag, pool noodle to whack around, or something to expend that angry energy onto. It feels good!

Try to make this about you now. You have been extremely compassionate and considerate of his feelings. Time to turn the tables -- make this about you. Extend yourself that same compassion and consideration you've been giving him. You more than deserve it.
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Thanks for this!
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Old Aug 12, 2017, 07:11 AM
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I've been hurt by a psychiatrist and my last therapist. I don't know that I've ever gotten over it.
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