Posted by Tamar on November 30, 2005, at 20:05:23
In reply to (Yet) another perspective on love in therapy, posted by one woman cine on November 30, 2005, at 10:36:43
Hi, and thanks for contributing your perspective.
I don’t know why, but I found some of those ideas quite terrifying. Maybe it’s the idea that my feelings could be equivalent to a dime; maybe it’s that they’re commonplace. They don’t ‘feel’ commonplace to me. I’ve never felt this way about anyone before.
I know intellectually that my therapist might well snore. I know he doesn’t need to be protected from my feelings. What terrifies me is that my feelings for him might be meaningless to him. That’s what I find scary. That my love for him is insignificant. That he doesn’t want my love; he has been taught to ‘deal’ with it; it is merely a feature of my pathology.
Maybe I'm just too depressed to talk about this...
Tamar
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