What bothers me is that you went to him for help and now he is using you for his own gratification. What ever needs he may have he should have gotten them from outside his practice instead of using a patient who is in need and is easily manipulated.

Please don't take this as a knock on you. I know for a fact that if my T, Dan, ever asked me to get into a relationship I would have. I have become extremely attached to him and have fantasized that very thing, which I understand to be a common and normal thing. This is why it would be wrong for him to take advantage of the situation. I would not be in the position to be able to see beyond what I needed to feel better--and an intimate relationship makes a person feel loved and beautiful which would make me feel stronger and better at the same time. But it wouldn't be real. It would be abuse. The strength I would gain would lost once the relationship ended because it is not built on stable ground for the real world. Plus the relationship with him would take away from the energy needed to develop and improve my relationship with my husband who has committed himself to be there for me until the end. Unlike Dan who is only going to be in my life for a limited time.
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Self-hate uses SELF-IMPROVEMENT as SELF-MAINTENANCE. As long as you are concerned about improving yourself, you'll always have a self to improve. And you will always suffer.--Cheri Huber in There is Nothing Wrong with You, Going Beyond Self-Hate