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Adlerian Brief Therapy 18 looking back on it, he thinks I did. [She is putting more importance on her son’s thoughts than her own. I want her to at least voice her own position.] Therapist: Um, hmm. What do you think now? Client: Well, I still don’t think I was putting anything on him. I think it was his choice. Therapist: So you’re in disagreement at this point. Client: But as we went through life, we were very close all the time. And when he moved back to Butte—after failing at his doctoral degree—we just did a lot of things together, and he kept inviting me. I’m not someone who would just invite myself places, and I guess that’s a bad thing, because I have to wait for everybody else to invite me. Therapist: You can wind up feeling lonely sometimes. Client: Yes. All the time. Anyway, he always invited me, and I always went. We had a great time. We liked the same kinds of things, and he was about my best friend, you know . . . really. My friends always told me that I was too close to him. [Again, someone else’s voice has been given preference over her own. I want to challenge that.] Therapist: Well, exactly what is too close?
Adlerian Brief Therapy 19 Client: Well, that’s what I have never been able to understand. It seems to me that family members can be close and do things together as long as it is… Therapist: You weren’t still diapering him. Client: No, no, and I wasn’t sleeping with him. To me it seemed okay. Therapist: Then why the hell did you listen to those people? Client: Well, I didn’t. And I kept going. And when I got my doctorate he helped me through it. I emailed him every paper I wrote, except my sex therapy papers. Therapist: [smiling with a twinkle in his eye] You have to draw the line somewhere. Client: [laughs] He would critique them and send them back to me, and I felt like I really had support there. He really supported me through my doctorate. I would have never made it without him, probably. And then, I came back to Montana, and we continued seeing each other from time to time and had fun together and so forth. All of the sudden, he got this girlfriend who hated me. I didn’t know she was even a girlfriend. She was someone he was helping out. She was quite a bit younger than he, and she needed a lot of help. So, he was helping her and still, when he would invite
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