This is going to be dull but I could use some advice...
While I was receiving treatment over the course of a couple of years, my therapist and I began to discuss more abstract theoretical stuff and wondered if we might collaborate professionally. This was obviously not followed up on during treatment but when that finished the conversation began again.
There was an idea of bringing some ideas from my field of interest together with his...and also maybe me contributing some patient experiences to a book he is writing.
So the problem is that I don't know if he actually wants to pursue this venture. When he emails me he sounds very enthusiastic but it always takes him weeks and weeks to reply - which hints quite strongly that he doesn't.
I have attempted to indicate that it's fine if none of this pans out...but he keeps responding that we should definitely do something - but with huge time lags, and never getting as far as setting a date to meet up.
Are there people out there who actually want to maintain a working relationship who don't return emails for weeks on end? Or have I been extremely slow at understanding that this is a dead end?
If its dead...how do I actually declare it dead...or is there no need? Do I just not reply to the next email whenever it turns up?
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IceBeing · 30/05/2016 11:28
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