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Family therapy

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deleted_user
Dont you find family therapy to be so unproductive or even counter-productive?
deleted_user
deleted_user
Only sometimes... I find it necessary....
tommymott
tommymott
I didn't find couples therapy to be useful. The female counselor
was obviously taking my wife's side and I felt there was nothing to be gained. And there wasn't.
deleted_user
deleted_user
Did ffamily therapy and my parents, especially my dad just took the floor and wouldnt even let the therapist say her two cents. They just kind of managed to upset me even more..
tommymott
tommymott
That is frustrating but only shows the therapist that your Dad should have private sessions!
deleted_user
deleted_user
I am sorry your family therapy didn't work.
When I started to attend therapy (22 years ago) I remember the therapist suggest we SHOULD take family sessions, but they didn't want. I was very upset with my parents because they abandoned me to deal with therapy since I was a little girl.
Now, it doesn't work, but I don't blame then anymore. I forgave them although it took me a lot of years of therapy.
I think that be in a therapy process requires to be brave. Some people just don't have the strength and the emotional and intellectual ability to do it.
I hope you will feel better and in some point forgive your parents.