It’s true. My shopper threatened to kidnap me and preserve me in her attic as her non-public, life-time — mine, not hers — therapist.
Earlier than you report her, let me elaborate.
I forgot to avoid wasting for retirement.
“What does that must do with a kidnapping risk?” you ask.
As effectively you need to ask.
Reply — I can’t retire, however I in all probability ought to — I’m getting previous(er) by the day — and want to. I made the error of mentioning my wishes to my shopper.
She and I’ve a terrific rapport. She has referred to me as her “second mom,” — as a lot of my shoppers do — and as a therapist who makes use of Reparenting as a software, I’m cool with it.
She’s humorous with the identical darkish humor I’ve within the face of darkness that often defeats widespread muckledy-duck shaded humor. Darkness doesn’t stand an opportunity in opposition to our eclipsing, abyss-like, darkish humor. We kick darkness’ ass, laughing all the way in which till certainly one of us cries. Often her — I’m supposed to keep up goal compassion.
Apparently, I’m simply objectively compassionate sufficient, whereas sharing her humorousness and having nice rappo rt, that she will’t stay with out me. Not precisely what a therapeutic relationship is meant to be. The truth is, fairly the other. We, like mama birds, kick you out of the nest in some unspecified time in the future. After we enable you to discover ways to fly, in fact.
Once I instructed her I thought of myself semi-retired, with the hope of retiring some day her response was,
“In the event you retire, I’m kidnapping you and retaining you captive in my attic.”
Then she laughed. So I laughed. All that darkish humor, you already know.
We meet on video, so I wasn’t anxious. Till I urged we may meet to do a stroll and speak. She replied,
“Good. That means I can measure you for the restraints I’ll want for you whenever you’re in my attic.”
Hmmm. Ought to I be anxious? Her prognosis isn’t one that may predict the dark-triad, fatal-attraction kind conduct which may lead somebody to such…
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