It works, I like the scuffing. No, it’s definitely not a myth, I’ve seen it come into play a lot of times. It people feel less damaged when they have someone else who’s damaged to take care of. Hence the reason so many therapists have messed up personal lives.

Cheers, it took a lot of laziness to not vectorize it and claim that it was to be artistic :3
Yeah, I have a friend with a messed up personal life who wants to be a therapist, so it works both ways there.
It’s a shame that the people that encourage people to be messed up so they can help them are messed up too. Maybe someone should help them, but I think then they’d be too preoccupied with reaching for their zipper to hear anything they say.

Not always, I’ve actually managed to get a few such people to talk to me without sleeping with them. Sometimes they have quite a bit to say.

Impressive. I won’t ask into it since I consider that kind of thing confidential when I end up talking to someone about these things, but might I ask if they ’broke down’ so to say, or simply talked a lot?

Neither. I built trust quickly, and then because I was still new and they didn’t have a lot of emotion invested in me, I’d follow up on some point that was briefly mentioned that led to the issues, get down to it, and then they’d either open up entirely, or give me more information piecewise as I worked for it. Sometimes they tried to sleep with me, but always after this happened.