Not exact matches
I didn't have any PS for a full week
while I was on a business trip, and on the last night before I started up again, the vivid dreams
returned (they had gone away a
while back), but like nothing I have ever experienced before — short, unrelated vignettes, shot through with incredibly negative
emotions: rage, resentment, hatred.
While it may seem romantic to love someone with all your heart and soul, even when they don't
return your feelings, the reality is unrequited love is a one sided love, an intense
emotion that is unreciprocated.
Returning to the notion of the role of the therapist then,
while in both cases the therapist is a resource for accessing, distilling, and expressing primary
emotion, in the context of couple therapy the therapist has the opportunity to assess the individual / personal resources of each partner, as well as the resources of the relationship, and to use the relationship as a resource more directly.