WePow, thanks for this. The shift at the end of the session is something I have come to accept as part of therapy, but comparing how T is with me to how she is with others as she walks them out really is bothering me at this time. So many times they come out laughing and talking animatedly, and it is not like that at all for me. Once recently, after I said at the beginning of the session that I wished I was more lively and open and spontaneous, she seemed to turn on or turn up those things in her, as if to see how I would react, as if to raise the bar or something. It was so obvious and unnerving, so weird.