Ms C I like what you said about how your T relationship is helping you learn how to be in a more intimate relationship. I think my childhood experiences also distorted my perception of intimate relationships and made it difficult for me to engage in them. Now I feel like..IDK a whole new world has opened up to me. It is a really exciting time for me,but scary at the same time.
What I kind of like about my T relationship at the moment is it seems very stable. I can go out in my personal life, engage with others, and then come back to my T relationship and work through some of the wacky, childish, fearful junk that surfaces. Recently it seems like I step out of my comfort zone, interact in a new way with someone and then check in with my T just to get reassurance that what I'm doing is OK, normal, not likely to lead to some place I don't want to go.

IDK do you see yourself as using your talk therapy as a stable base from which you can leap from?