Love Hurts

I think it's almost impossible not to fall in love with a good health care practitioner. I recently started acupuncture treatments with a new doctor, Richard Grossman, OMD. He's kind and nonjudgmental, he listens, he's caring, he understands . . . and we talk about my favorite subject -- ME! What's not to love?

But then I think about what it would be like to actually be in a relationship with a doctor. After listening carefully to patients all day, he wouldn't want to listen to me. He'd want to talk about his favorite subject -- him. And I'd have to deal with feelings of jealousy towards his patients, all of whom are in love with him and receive his undying attention. A little different than my dream, to say the least.

It makes me realize how difficult it can be to find this kind of caring attention outside of sessions with paid professionals. It's not something that we often have in our everyday friendships and intimate relationships, and that's sad.