Attachment Talk Update
It’s been a few weeks since I shared that I told my therapist a bunch of attachment/transference things that had been weighing on me. She handled it great at the time. It’s been a hard few weeks since, with a lot going on in my personal life that has been hard, but she’s been very steady through it all.
Today I got around to asking her how she felt about all that I had shared. I wasn’t sure she would even answer — she’s always warm but never makes my therapy about herself and shares very little of her own experience.
She did answer though, and was so open and affirming about the whole thing. She said she was thrilled I had told her and she seemed like it too. My brain can’t even really take that info in, but she said we can go over it as many times as I need until it feels real.
I’m so incredibly relieved. I know not everyone’s attachment/transference talk goes well, but with the right therapist it is possible. Glad I have had this space to bounce ideas off of because it would have been even harder to have these talks if I had felt like I was the only client in the world with these feelings.