Therapy instead of family

[mollyreinvented]

Do any of you out there who are in therapy ever feel like you are just paying for someone to care for you? My therapist has offered to hold me before and I know that she feels love toward me, but there are limits to the relationship. Sometimes I just wish I had an older woman in my life that would just love me and help me out...but no one has

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[arbus]

ive been in therapy with the same woman since way before my mother died, so its been a few years. she started out as a couples counselor for my boy and i, and morphed into strictly my counselor because i wasnt finding anyone i clicked with. anyway, while ive never had anything like that happen, i know theres a connection between us, and she is about my mothers age, even looks like her in some lights. she met my mother once, and is very in tune with things swirling around me these days (and these last two years). sometimes i wonder if ive gotten too close or attached, but i hope not.

[bella_rivolta]

i'm about ready to start putting up ads in retirement homes: "motherless daughter ISO daughterless mother, for shopping, coffee, cuddling, dinner parties, and holidays."

it would be funny if i weren't so f*ing serious.