TBF, if your partner treats you like a sex worker you absolutely should object to that. But that's not the same as having sex with your partner, and I'm not sure that people are making that fine grained distinction on the "free therapist" front.
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I should perhaps point out that I am typically the "free therapist" in my friendships and relationships to a really disproportionate degree. I'm not saying that people don't have valid problems they are describing by this term, I'm saying that I think the labelling is badly off.
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I've seen this go very well and I've seen this go very badly. When it goes very well, it looks nothing like therapy because it is about mutuality and deepening the relationship. When it goes very badly it looks nothing like therapy because you cannot be sufficiently objective.
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In the bad scenarios they are almost always behaving in ways that would make for a spectacularly shitty therapy client, and your options for dealing with that are very limited in a way that they would not be for an actual therapist.
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Well, it does look like a similar distinction. Supporting your partner VS fixing your partner, making them feel good sexually VS serving them sexually
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Yup. Talking about your feelings with a partner should look about as much like a therapy session as having sex with your partner should look like a visit to a sex worker, and if that resemblance is close something very bad is happening!
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The latter is supposed to be fun, and not forced. The former is a grave responsibility and deeply stressful. I’m sure there are relationships where my first point doesn’t hold, but they should be uncommon right?
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Talking about your feelings with your partner should not be forced or deeply stressful and if it is something has gone terribly wrong.
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