Therapy/connection

[orek]

To me 3-5 years is just a small drop in the bucket.......it feels like I only just blinked and a year has gone by already. So that is a very interesting way to look at it.
Thank you
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I totally get that. Sometime last year our T warned us she'd be retiring in about a year. She thought it sounded like lots of time still, but to us it felt like a "blink of the eye." Our therapy basically shut down after that announcement. This past year has been a desperate fight to stay engaged so we can make good use of the time left. But we haven't succeeded in getting past the "leaving us soon" part, even though we knew therapy comes to an end eventually and that she had put off retiring for many years. We now have until end of August with her, a little over 9 years together once it's done. But we needed just a bit more time. We were just reaching deeper insiders and memories at the point she told us, and the announcement stopped the whole process. So, yes, I understand the reflexive wall, the tremendous pain and anxiety over the eventual loss of a good T.