How Psychotherapy Helped Me Get My Life Back on Track

I never thought that I would have to go to psychotherapy. I had always been a strong and independent person and was always sure I knew who I was. Psychotherapy was another language to me. My husband and I were married for ten years and I could not have been happier. That is, until I came home early from a work trip one week to walk in on him and another woman. In our bed. That was definitely not going to fly, but I was so in love with him I thought I could make it better. Maybe I was not pretty enough, or maybe I was not giving him the attention he needed from me. Whatever it was, I was not going to let the man of my dreams slip through my fingers. The way I felt though, after seeing him with another woman, was impossible to shake.

Psychotherapy began to be suggested to me as I slipped into a depression, all the while trying to be a better wife and lover. My friends were all concerned for me and wanted what was best for me. I knew that. However, I balked at the idea of having to go to psychotherapy. In my opinion, I was a strong woman and nobody was going to be able to help me but myself. Finally, in an attempt to save my marriage and myself, I decided to take their advice and just give psychotherapy a shot. If it did not work, which I did not expect it to, I would simply stop going. It was as easy as that.

I made the psychotherapy appointment because I figured it would get all my friends off my back about it and I did not think it could hurt me any more than I already was hurting. By this point, I just wanted to feel happier and better because if I did not I would not be able to keep my husband happy. Even though I knew he was probably continuing his affair, I did not let myself believe it.

At first I was not sure how I felt about my psychotherapist. Psychotherapy was not really like it was conveyed in movies. I did not feel like she was giving me the once over all the time, and she left all her note taking to a recorder, which was nice. Talking to her did not come easily the first few times but eventually, and I do not know how she did it, I began to open up. I felt like she was really listening and she helped me make a lot of realizations about myself, who I am, and what I want. Psychotherapy was beginning to feel like it was what I needed.

Eventually, psychotherapy helped me to realize I did not need a husband who did not appreciate me for everything I had done for him. With my psychotherapists help, I was finally able to cut the cord from him and move on with my life. Since then, I have continued going to psychotherapy, and I have also been much happier. I have been focusing on myself, what I want, and how to make myself happy, for the first time in my life.  Thanks to psychotherapy I am finally happy in life and able to really be independent and secure with who I am.

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