Posted by Dinah on November 24, 2008, at 17:18:41
In reply to Re: The L word with T?, posted by Annierose on November 24, 2008, at 16:46:13
I *know* my therapist isn't someone I'd choose to spend my time with outside therapy. We aren't at all alike in any way.
He drive me nuts enough in the constraints of therapy.
And yet I do love him, warts and all.
Do you think it important to have a lot in common with the people we love? I think of it more as a feeling. Well, for example, when he bites off bits of his cuticles, instead of feeling annoyed with him as I might have in the beginning, I feel a surge of affection. Or when he called me to tell me he was leaving for that job, I realized I cared enough for him to want the best for him even if it meant that he would no longer be available to me. At least at that moment.
The fact that I wouldn't feel any desire to spend an evening in his company seems so small beside all that.
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