Persistent Psychoanalyzation

I am a big fan of psychology. I've taken courses in high school and college but I've been independently and consistently studying psychology on my own for several years. It's just a subject I find fascinating. I'm also a huge fan of therapy. I think it's something everyone should go to at some period in their life. Just having another person to say things out loud to makes an enormous difference on how you process things. At least for me it does. My love of psychology has given me the gift of self awareness and a higher degree of understanding when I deal with people who are out of their god damn minds, such as my family. But sometimes I take it a little too far.....

For instance, the other night I was laying in bed with my boyfriend. Once the day is over and we are decompressing and watching tv or whatever, I tend to use his relaxed state to ask a lot of questions because I can't help but psychoanalyze everyone I come in contact with. Sometimes I ask about family, childhood, past relationships, anything that I feel could mold someone to the person they currently are. Oh yeah, being in a relationship with me is super, super fun. So I was asking all sorts of questions about past relationships and apparently he was not in the mood for our nightly therapy session and just wanted to watch tv. If anything, I am persistent. Also when I get going in my investigative mode, it's difficult for me to just stop.

I get about 15 questions deep and start shifting from background questions to things like, "So do you feel because of your past relationships, it's hard for you to trust others? I feel like you have felt abandoned in the past, therefore you have taken on a very "out for yourself" attitude, not in a bad way but just as a defense mechanism to protect yourself from being hurt again. Does that seem accurate to you?"

It was at this point I was told, "Dude, you aren't a therapist. You didn't go to school for this. Stop trying to diagnose me and just shut up..."

To which I responded, "Hmmm... I feel like you are projecting. Do you want to address this anger you've been holding on to?" Because clearly I needed to screw with him at this point.

Him- *dagger eyes*

I actually had a therapy appointment the next day and repeated this conversation to my therapist. She thought it was pretty funny that I told him he was projecting and told me (as she has several times) that I need to go get my advanced degree in psychology and get paid for it. What can I say, I'm a natural.

After my therapy session and reassuring him that I do indeed know what I'm talking about, we were laying in bed again he following night and the following conversation occurred:

Me- So I noticed you've been wearing your shirt to bed. This seems like a major change in your personality as you usually do not wear a shirt to bed. Is there something you want to talk about? Are you upset about something?

Him- What the fuck are you talking about? What do you mean I've been wearing a shirt to bed lately?

Me- Well you slept with a shirt on last night. Not that I've been thinking about it all day or anything.

Him- So one night? I forget to take my shirt off for one night and this is a thing now?

Me- Umm..yeah I guess. But I see you are wearing a shirt now as well.

Him- What the fuck?

Me- Are you upset? Do you think that you are subconsciously or maybe consciously wearing a shirt to bed to create a physical barrier which represents both an emotional and physical wall you are putting up between us?

Him- Uh..I think I just forgot to take my shirt off. You're seriously insane. Why are you like this?

Me- Oh ok. Well I didn't know. It's been bugging me. Like I said, it's a shift in character to go from not wearing a shirt to bed to wearing a shirt to bed.

Him- Good. Every time we argue from now on, I'm going to wear a shirt to bed. And if it's during the day, I'm just going to stand there and keep putting on shirts until you leave me alone.

Me- Don't. Don't you fucking do that, you prick.

Like I've said before, dating me is super fun.