How to bring up the kink with my therapist? [Support]
I am seeing a new girlfriend and our relationship is going really well, but I have been keeping my cuckolding kink a secret from her, I'm not ready to tell her yet.
I've also been going to a therapist for a few months now and have built up trust a lot, she has been telling me a lot of useful things and helping me navigate the big steps in the relationship, like the decision to move in together. Having been out of a long term relationship, it's been really helpful to have an objective person I can trust confidentially.
Now that what we had been talking about is mostly resolved, we've moved on to other things in our sessions but I want to bring up the kink to understand it better, and navigate how to bring this up with my new girlfriend to get her perspective on that.
I know that therapists probably do talk about stuff like this a lot, but I've never done it in one of my sessions and it feels a bit odd, because it is something that is normally a taboo subject. I had tried bringing it up with one of my first therapists and i avoided it in other sessions.
To bring it up and steer our sessions toward this, I had thought about something like:
> so, the next thing I want to talk about is a bit hard for me to bring up because it involves things of a sexual, identity, and kink nature. I don't know how to navigate this conversation. It's hard for me to bring this up with you, which mirrors the anxiety I have bringing it up with her?
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> how should I approach more 'Freudian' topics like sexuality and trying to understand kinks? Is this something you are specialized in or is this something that Id' be better off with a specialist?
Any constructive advice and relevant stories or experience is appreciated, thank you!