My wife says that George never went to see a psychiartrist and was talking about Counsela from the beginning as the nice woman who he was going to ask to marry. He did seem awfully secretive about the "visits." Others agree?
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I got the impression that he WAS seeing the psychiatrist and that he met Consuella when he went into the clothing store to buy a shirt for his date.
Perhaps someone who speaks Spanish could translate the conversation that takes place as he is coerced inside her shop.
The woman who sells the shirt to George is saying something like "Do you like that shirt? Come inside and try it on." To a cat like George, I'm sure this speaks whole volumes.
shareI don't think he ever went to see the psychaiatrist either. That's why when Bo would ask George how things were going with the Psychiatrist, he's never answer.
sharehmm...i think george's encounter with the shrink opened up a new world known as conversation and when the shrink rejected his marriage proposal, consuela was there to pick him up on the rebound
shareI think that the shrink visits really occurred, that the shrink helped him see that he was giving too much of himself to the Grodin family. This is not something he would volunteer to Bo. Like opophore says, Consuela was there for him for consolation when the shrink rejected him, or possibly he didn't propose to her after all (seeing that Arlene was right--he was paying for the shrink to be "caring").
This being said, I do see how it is a completely plausible theory that he never went to the shrink. However, I think George is too direct to be lying to Arlene about his visits with the shrink and, subsequently, his feelings for her.
I think he went to the psychiatrist and he probably did tell her about his childhood. But as someone mentioned above, I think it opened him up a bit to the romantic possibilities available to him. I think he may have been intimidated by trying to date a psychiatrist but, on the other hand, he probably told her more about himself than he'd ever told any woman so he figured she was safe.
I didn't know what the woman in the store, Consuela, told him but he couldn't understand it anyway. When he was married he had someone there to translate the preacher's words from Spanish.
So, he may have been shot down by the Doctor but he had gained enough confidence to pursue someone else. Or he may have finally realized that Arlene was not going to be interested in him, romantically.
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