Posted by Dinah on June 20, 2004, at 8:56:54
In reply to Re: I want to drag my parents to therapy » Dinah, posted by terrics on June 19, 2004, at 14:57:44
He swears that I brought her in early in my therapy, but he is mistaken. He just met her in passing with me elsewhere in the building once. And my father waited for me in the waiting room once when I was bringing him to a doctor's appointment in the area immediately before or after my session.
My therapist thinks it can generally be helpful for a therapist to meet the other people in a client's immediate family. Although we did, of course, thoroughly explore why I was bringing it up "now". I always hate that question because it makes me feel like he thinks it was inappropriate although he has explained often enough that that isn't what he means.
My father won't of course go. He rarely agrees to go anywhere anymore.
My mother is agreeable, and I don't even think she'd attack him at this point (verbally, of course) as she might have earlier. My greatest fear is that she'll express her opinion that he is attractive since she and my father have the notion that that is a large part of why I have stayed in therapy so long.
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