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Please tell me honestly, am I being unreasonable here?

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PossiblyBeingUnreasonable · 17/04/2011 17:50

Name changed to protect those involved.

My DH is a psychologist specialising in family and couples therapy. A friend has just asked him for help. She's stuck in a horrendous relationship with both she and her DP drinking several bottles of wine a day and the police constantly involved between them, and all the NHS and Relate waiting lists are months long and she can't afford to pay privately. And they're TTC.

Usually, I don't mind DH helping friends out, especially in scenarios like this in which I am clearly out of my depth. But at a family barbeque five years ago, this friend got very drunk and pulled her cleavage out before asking if DH would be her 'sex therapist' (DH is not a sex therapist). The friend has no memory of the incident but refused to believe she could have acted as she did, claiming that everyone else made the whole thing up simply to humiliate her. So whereas, to be fair, she has been extremely careful around DH ever since, we have never quite managed to restore complete trust in one another.

Now, though, she's clearly desperate and in need of help which DH could probably provide. But AIBU in feeling very uncomfortable with the prospect?

OP posts:
NonnoMum · 17/04/2011 20:23

And the Relate waiting lists aren't THAT long...

msrisotto · 18/04/2011 17:34

Still no, he could be the best therapist in the whole wide world and it would still not be a good idea for him to get involved IMO. She is being demanding and is close to over stepping boundaries. She will be aware of this. Don't go against your instincts.

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