jacq, could you think of this during the break to help you feel better? When I read this, and my T has said something similar, I feel like it is another way of T saying how much they are there for us, in ways that can feel like someone loving and taking care of us. The safe environment they give us, the attunement on such meaningful levels such as this, the acceptance...it isn't the love and care we missed and miss, but it can create in us the same feelings of safety, trust, connection, reliability, consistancy, and feeling that someone does value our feelings and cares about our emotional well-being.