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Update: Psycho Marriage Counselor Lied to Us (31f/35m) (by Sparky)

 Sparky (0)  (29 / M-F / Massachusetts)
24-Feb-18 8:22 am
Update: Psycho Marriage Counselor Lied to Us (31f/35m)

So this is an update more than... Three years later? I hope this is allowed. I used a throwaway and don't remember my password.
Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/relationshi...age_counselor/
A lot happened since then and it occurred to me that maybe I should post an update in case anyone here was around for that.
Summary: I was the wife who was seeing a marriage counselor with my husband. Both jointly and individually. Things were only getting worse and worse and it was only after a blow up fight that my husband and I compared notes and realized the counselor had been feeding each of us lies.
Counselor was telling me that my husband was emotionally 12 years old and would never be capable of a relationship (while reassuring my husband all was well with him). Meanwhile, he was telling my husband I had borderline personality disorder and needed medication.
When my husband started accusing me of being mentally ill, I brought this up to the counselor who then began making fun of my husband for saying such a thing ("Does he think he's a psychiatrist or something?" He actually laughed.) Counselor reassured me that I was a "beautiful and intelligent woman" and would do great once I left my husband.
The counselor (who was provided by the military through their family services) ended up being transferred a few weeks after we discovered this. We couldn't figure out if he got canned for abusing some other couple, if he retired, or some other shenanigan.
Well. Fast forward to today. My husband and I are doing great now. We went on a vacation, both of us changed jobs, moved, and we are very happily married now four years later. We travel, adopted a couple of kitties, and bought a house in a place we both love.
How we got here: We both read some self-help books. Started giving each other the benefit of the doubt. Got better at communicating. I left my super high stress job, he changed careers, and everything sort of did a 180. (Funny enough. My old job had been killing me and when I'd mentioned to counselor that I thought maybe I should find another job, since it was so dysfunctional, he protested against it.)
My husband and I did not report him at the time. We were concerned he would retaliate against my husband in some way, as my husband was in the armed forces for a year and a half after all this. I am embarrassed that we did not report him. We were scared and overwhelmed. I am considering calling that base's family services now and filing an official report. Not sure if it'll matter, so much time has passed.
That's... That's all really. You all were such a great help then, I thought I might as well post this in case anyone around here remembered.
PS. I thought to post this after we watched an M Night Shyamalan movie recently. One of the commenters had mentioned this sounded like a film he'd make. :) I still laugh at that comment years later, so thank you U/brandon23z and u/acheronshunt for that.
*TLDR:Husband and I are happily married four years after psycho Dr. Lecter wannabe pulled an M Night Shyamalan. *


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 MrWalkSoftly (16)     (58 / M-F / Louisiana)
24-Feb-18 2:00 pm
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