FRE
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- FRE,
Yes she has bad self esteem issues with her weight. And shes constantly meeting guys off "dating" sites. I keep telling her that most of them really don't want a "date" but she falls for the same lines over and over. The same lies. Has sex with them. They suddenly they fade out of her life. And she's left wondering what she did wrong. Believe me I pep talk her just about everyday. She just wants someone to love her. I keep trying to tell her she has to love herself. She's also frantic because she just turned 40 and she wants to have a baby so every guys she meets sets her up for the homerun.:frown1:
That reminds me of when I did volunteer work for a telephone service for people with problems.
There was one chronic repeat caller who was an easy push-over for every man who came along. Afterward, she always felt used and hated herself. She was seeing a psychologist. When she told him about it, he asked, "Is that bothering you right now?" It wasn't, so she said, "No," whereupon he said that then it was irrelevant. When she told me about it, I told her that what her psychologist said was a cop-out and that apparently he was too uncomfortable to deal with that problem. Obviously it WAS relevant even though it wasn't bothering her at that instant; it was a long term problem for her and needed to be addressed. I also told her that if her psychologist had trouble dealing with that particular problem, he should refer her to someone else for that problem and that she should INSIST that he do so.
That episode confirmed my long-held belief that there are many incompetent mental health practitioners and that finding a competent one can be challenging. It's especially difficult because a person who is hurting and vulnerable is often in no position to evaluate a psychologist. There are entirely too many of those people who sometimes do more harm than good.