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"How are you doing, did you have a nice weekend?" asks Kathy when I sit down on Tuesday for my therapy appointment.
"Not so great, I think. A lot happened since last Wednesday and my head and heart feel sick about everything."
"Do you want to tell me what happened?"
I spent the next twenty minutes or so telling Kathy all about what had happened with Tahoe, his father and mother. Ending things with him on Sunday and then what happened at work on Monday.
"I feel so stupid, I've allowed myself to get hurt and I'm sick and worried about what is going to happen at work."
"What happened on Sunday to make you decide to end things with Tahoe?"
Thinking about how the conversation with Tahoe started and what made me want to run was hard but I knew I had to face it in here. I'd been putting it off for two days.
"I realized I could imagine a life with him and it terrified me, what if I let myself be taken in by all of that and he got bored with me or the novelty of our differences wore off. I would rather face a little hurt now than that kind of devastation later. I had to end things before I got even more attached to him than I already am."
"I can see that everything you've gone through up to now would feel like evidence that you cannot have something good in your life, but what is the evidence from your life that good can also happen?"
Oh god, that is a hard question for me to even think on. I push myself to think her question through, looking for the good in my life.
"I am not sure. I guess the fact that my life is pretty stable right now, I love my job and I have my friendship with Cheryl."
"Did you take risks to make any of those things happen?"
"Not really, I didn't have anything to lose so I wasn't risking anything trying for better."
"How about with Cheryl, you let her in. You were risking your heart with her."
"Yes, but at first, I didn't really even like Cheryl, so I wasn't worried about losing her friendship. She kind of just wormed her way in without me really knowing it."
"If Cheryl wasn't in your life anymore would that hurt?"
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