u/TextuallyExplicit

Frozen pizza.

I had to get a new therapist about six months ago (my previous one moved to a new practice that didn't take my insurance). And my new therapist is great! They're also nonbinary, so they understand the experience, and their technique has been working really well for me. We have a very casual relationship and make small talk before and after the sessions, which is not an experience I had with my previous therapists. It's cool.

Last month we had a session involving some pretty intense topics and I got very emotional. As I was leaving, they asked me if I wanted a hug. I did (I am a very pro-hug person). I then started to assume, "Oh, we hug now. We're at the hugging stage." So now we hug whenever I'm about to leave a session.

I had a session today, and toward the end, they brought this up. They said that they need to scale back on that kind of behavior because it's inconsistent with how they interact with their other clients and they want to maintain professionalism, and because "we can't be friends." (They did seem a little sad about that, which was nice, in a way 😅)

The rational part of my mind knew that and understands it completely. The emotional part of my mind is having a bad time right now. I kind of feel like I just got broken up with--which, to me, indicates that I had some Feelings about my therapist that I wasn't conscious of, so now I feel guilty about that, and it's a whole thing.

If only there was a mental health professional I could talk to about this 😛

EDIT: I actually misquoted them, they actually said "we can never be friends" which was even worse lol

Pictured: Pasta with lentils and spinach I made tonight with my wife 🥰

I'm obsessed with her—she's so smart and funny and kindhearted and talented, not to mention HOT—and I know the feeling is mutual 🥰

We have fun every day just being together 🥰 it's the best relationship I've ever been in

And the best part is: Neither of us are sociopathic men who are just going through the motions of a relationship for sex/social status/a meal ticket/desire for control/etc.!

If anybody reading this is sick of dating men and has ever been tempted by lesbianism I would wholeheartedly encourage you to try it, it's saved my life and it might do the same for you!

I felt like this very distinctive-looking gith woman, who we meet conducting an extremely brutal attack on some hapless Flaming Fists, was going to be a more significant character. Like maybe she'd feel personally betrayed by >!Kith'rak Voss defecting from Vlaakith!< and come try to fight you about it, perhaps >!leading one of the githyanki ambushes you encounter later!<. But she never appears after that scene, even if she survives.