Mom pulled the car over in front of the therapist's office and leaned over to give me a kiss on the cheek.
"Have a great session baby" she said.
"Whatever" I replied, feeling frustrated and annoyed to still have to be seeing this quack.
"I'll pick you up at 2!" Mom said as she began to drive off.
I made my way up the steps of the brownstone and into Dr. Lane's office. Dr. Angela Lane had been my therapist for the past few years. Mom and dad said I had an "attitude" problem and that she would help me focus my anger towards more productive things. It all started after one overly frustrating day when mom's nagging and annoyance finally sent me over the edge and forced me to let out a "Fuck off mom!" That was the final straw for dad. It was an immediate grounding followed by my first appointment with Dr. Lane.
I pressed the button letting her know I had arrived and sat and waited in her living room. I always thought being a therapist and working out of your own home was a strange idea. What if she had a lunatic as a client who lost his mind one day and was out for blood...he'd know right where she lived. The office door opened and Dr. Lane gestured me in.
"Welcome Frederick."
I hated when people called me by my full name, but no matter how many times I corrected her, she would never call me Fred.
"So I'd like to pick up where we left off, but first, how was this past week? Are you feeling like you've made any progress in your resentment towards your parents?"
"I guess" I lied.
"That doesn't sound very convincing."
"I don't know what you want me to say! Do I love my parents? Sure. But it's hard to get past the fact that my dad is a fucking moron who doesn't know how good he has it, and mom is too fucking weak to do anything about it. And meanwhile, I'm just supposed to take it from them that somehow I'm the one with who needs help?"
"Frederick, this is not the first time you've referenced your father's lack of appreciation for his circumstances. Can you explain that a little more? What do you mean exactly?"
"I mean...he convinces mom to marry him when she's 19, she's a 10 out of 10 and he's a fat, balding loser, and for some reason, she loves him and has his children and plays housewife and he can't even find the strength to touch her! But he has no problem fucking his god damn golf instructor!"
"Frederick, what did we say about making accusations you can't prove?"
"Oh I can prove it. I found her panties in the back of his car. And the seat smelled like sex and pussy. I may be a virgin, but I know what pussy smells like doc."
"Well why do you assume it was some other woman and not your mom's panties?"
"Because she doesn't own those panties..." I stopped as soon as I realized what I had said, but it had already come out.
"Interesting. And how do you know that she doesn't own those panties?"
"I...." Uh oh. "I don't. I just...they didn't seem like her size. They were tiny, and slutty. The kind some 18 year old whore from the country club would wear."
There was a long pause as Dr. Lane jotted down notes in her book.
"Look, all I'm trying to say is, it's hard to respect my dad, and sometimes it feels even harder to respect mom for staying with such a bum."
"Frederick, you know that everything we talk about in this room stays in this room, and it does you no good to be dishonest in here. So, when I ask you this next question, really think about staying honest and unashamed. Have you been going through your mom's panties?"
"What?!?" I defended, embarrassed.
"I will also just add that that would not be abnormal and that sons being intrigued by the sexuality of their mothers is not a novel concept."
I was trapped...in a corner of my own making.
"Fine."
"Fine...as in you..."
"Yes! Happy?" I snapped at her.
"Why don't you tell me what you were thinking about the first time you went through your mom's drawers."
I figured there was no use trying to move her off of this conversation. Once Dr. Lane sunk her teeth into something, she rarely ever let up.
"I was just curious to see what I'd find."
"And what were you looking for?"
"Something sexy...lingerie or sex toys or something."
"Did you find what you were looking for?"
"Yes" I replied after a moment of shame.
"Frederick, there is no shame in this room. I am not judging you in any way, shape or form, and you should not judge yourself either. This is an opportunity for us to open a box in your mind previous hidden and locked up, and perhaps find some answers to who you are and why. Tell me what you found."
"I found a dildo and a vibrator...some lubricant."
"And what did you think about that? That must have been an interesting side of your mom to be revealed to you."
"I was happy."
"Why happy?"
"I don't know. I guess I was happy to know that she pleasures herself, since I know dad doesn't."
"What did you do next?"