My Therapist is Retiring

Terry Barr
Nov 4 · 5 min read

How do I say goodbye, with love, to this relationship?

Photo by Morgan Harper Nichols on Unsplash

I started therapy twenty-five years ago when my wife suggested that I should get some help. Our second daughter had been born a few months earlier, and my wife had started back to work while I took my first sabbatical from my college teaching job. Our older daughter was four, attending Montessori school. So for some hours each day, it was my baby daughter and me…

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Terry Barr

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I write about music, lit culture, sports, food, and my Alabama past in One Table One World, MuddyUm, Indelible Ink, Contemplate, inkMend, and The Weekly Knob.

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