Why spend all that time trying to build up their trust and form a relationship with the client, only to cut off all contact later, once they have become close and attached? How is that any different from past relationships where they've learned to love somebody who abandoned them?

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She talked about the cycles of life on the earth, birth and death, and about how even the trees lose their leaves in the winter, and that loss is a part of life. She also asked me how my religious beliefs could help me in learning to deal with the loss of relationships.