"I'm sorry u didn't feel u were getting those things. Can you tell me more? I'll just listen."
Yes, you are right to keep it short, and also try not to bring up the past visits unless he does first...gotta use that mlc memory issue to your advantage... Don't help him remember it, unless he initiates.
I tried to keep the "me" specific stuff out of it, to get W to look at the root issue (loneliness) which is within HER, not the specific instances in our R and me...hope that made some sense... lol
In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. - Albert Camus
Uncertainty is the very condition which impels people to unfold their powers.-Eric Fromm
Don't help him remember it, unless he initiates.