How Do You Forgive?

[eternaloptimist]

Therapists can be just as messed up as anyone else because they are human alas. The difference is that she took a oath not to do what she's done and this is her livelihood.

Thanks, Kittyfish, for all of the supportive things you've said. Yeah, ITA about therapist being human.

But, YES, it is their JOB and their PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY to manage these inherent aspects of the therapy process, to put the client and his/her relationship's first. What she did was exploitive, completely disrespectful of me and our marriage (rocky or not) and it outrages me to the core. I work in public services myself and I take it to heart that I am trying to make a difference, albeit perhaps small, in someone's life.

I don't know how I am going to get past this realizing that reporting her may cause more harm to my family. I don't want her to harm anyone else. That's the rub.