For weeks I have been trying to say it in a single sentence. One that could reach anyone — my wife, someone off the street, people who have never heard the words “closed system” and do not want to. I came across a post by a woman describing her experience of therapy. A year in a relationship in which every doubt she had was read as evidence that the problem was her. I feel that this describes something I went through for two years. Except that I do not call mine therapy. But the mechanism is the same.
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