And of course, because I miss my sweet P HUGELY and painfully imbetween sessions, when I hit one and half hours, (and want to GO HOME I am so worn out,) I just CANNOT say, "Can we stop here?" as I know I have been pining for him for at least three days, so walking out is not an option. It feels like a luxury to be in the same room as him.
I know you will all say "you will have to tell him." I have told him. He will say " Of course" and then re timetable to one and a half hours and then the weeks when two hours is necessary, - I will have shot myself in the foot. Argh, the curse of flexibility.
So I am trying to build up my ability to last out two hours, by having rests a lot, where he talks and I just slump for a while, (I can listen to what he is saying later on the recording).
It is a most unusual situation to be in. I find it quite funny really. Manageable but a little tricky at times.
IT is the same on the phone, often I just need a quick chat to hear his voice, but he starts talking about things and I am too polite to say "can we end now please?" though actually, looking back I have done that several times for phone calls. It is easier somehow on the phone to ask to end.
And I know some of you have strong views that a therapy hour should be fifty minutes, and that is what you do, that is what suits you and so you advocate it for all, but actually I seem to be in the strange position of not actually getting going much for ages, no matter HOW hard I try. I asked my previous T and this P about this, and they said it is because so much is happening in my life that I am trying to process and also so much is being triggered that I am sometimes just processing daily life stuff the first hour and when I have got that out of the way, I move to the deeper issues.
Anyway, I cannot really complain as I am getting this help free and sweetP is very very good. Him giving me too much time is a problem I can happily live with I guess.