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Anne2.0
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Default Jan 16, 2019 at 12:02 PM
 
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Originally Posted by mcl6136 View Post
I fantasized being fat and seeming to be okay with it, which my last T was. She is fat and seems completely pleased with her bulk. I was terribly jealous of her preening self-satisfied demeanor while being enormous. I imagined myself sitting around binge eating, never exercising and being perfectly okay with it, and complaining to her client (me) about her hip pain.

I realize how unacceptable these thoughts are, but that is exactly why I entertained them, and never spoke about them or acted on them in any way -- it was still fun to harbor them. Feel free to judge me for judging her. But that's what I got.
I assume you aren't personally directing "feel free to judge" to me, but I see nothing unacceptable about anyone's thoughts. They are just thoughts, fantasies, an imagined trying-on of a way of being that is quite intriguing (I find it admirable when anyone, but especially women, are perfectly content with their bodies).

I don't even think it would be "bad" to raise them with a T (where's CE who told his T he didn't care for her "underperforming hair"? It's a good story behind it and I apologize if I'm not remembering it accurately). Insulting someone is one thing, but raising an issue that is obviously in the room (T's appearance or your judgments about it) seems okay in therapy to me. I've discussed "mansplaining" in sessions and talked about how 99% of the world's atrocities are committed by men (this is a fake statistic) and how it must be embarrassing to be a man when you read the paper every day about a man doing something awful. If it's okay to discuss his gender with what's on my mind about men, I don't see why it wouldn't be okay to discuss any issues you have with the therapist's other traits. Again, if it's not just done for the purpose of being insulting. For me, I'd be intrigued to understand how it felt for you to imagine yourself in the scenario you paint and what it means (not asking you to share unless you want to). I see something symbolic in it (maybe about self-indulgence?), but then again I see symbolism everywhere.
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