I’m an adult female with a professional career and a graduate degree. I seem pretty normal on the outside, but I’m breaking the patience of my significant other. 

We went to couples counseling on Thursday, and the therapist focused on me and my childhood and issues with abandonment. I have crippling jealousy that I’ve had to work through about my boyfriend’s past that I was not apart of. Interestingly enough, when my boyfriend threatens me with break up, I “snap out” of my emotional turmoil and I can think straight. This is not a healthy dynamic and we are working on it. 

How do you navigate relationships and how is therapy working out for you? I want to be healthy and happy. Additionally, how do you deal with the “emptiness”? I’ve struggled to describe the feeling until I stumbled across a list of symptoms and I feel that emptiness badly sometimes.

Thank you!