(((Rachel))) yikes! That definitely sounds awkward. I ran in to my T at a restaurant too (we were both eating though - still freaked me out). Right now I live extremely close... Very very very close to T1 and work very very close to T2. I can name anything I'm near and they'll know exactly where it is, etc. It makes my life hell trying to hide from every white SUV, black SUV or brown Chrysler I see. It's like 100 heart attacks a day.

Ts need to do what all my elementary teachers did which was exist nowhere outside of where I saw them.

Oh props to you Rachel. It sounds like you handled the situation exccellently! I know I would have been shaking in my shoes.

Be prepared to talk about it next session. T's love to explore what things like that mean to you.

Good Job

Jillann

I live in fear that I'll run into my T at work. I deliberately chose a T in the town adjacent to where I live to reduce this possibility. So while it's unlikely that I'll run into her in Aldi on a Saturday morning, I do work further afield and it's fairly inevitable what we'll run into each other at some point. We do have an arrangement where if we think it's going to be possible then we'll talk about it.

Brief moments I think I'd be ok with. Anything more... bleurghhhh. I'm totally down with the idea that T's need to go back in their boxes between sessions, much like teachers.

It sounds like you handled it really well, Rachel.