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mnhtnbb

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18. My husband is a psychiatrist/psychoanalyst of 40 some years in practice.
Mon Jun 13, 2016, 07:23 PM
Jun 2016

We've been married 31 years.

Over the course of that time he's been invited to several weddings of patients/former patients. We attended one together--but the therapeutic relationship
had been terminated--and we only went to the ceremony, not the reception.

Once he attended a wedding on his own--I refused to go--and stayed for part of the reception. I was too uncomfortable with it
because I didn't want to be asked "how do you know the couple".

He declined attending another wedding because we were going out of town.

Personally, I think it's professionally inappropriate for her to go as long as the professional relationship hasn't been terminated.

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