This subject is relevant to me, and the answer is complicated. Thank you, Tiberius, for posting it, and in the regular forum too.

You could say I fell in love with 3 out of 5 Ts I've seen. I called it addictions or obsessions because they were female and so am I. I "got better" in some ways; therapy helped me with problems not related to the T. But I kept going from 1 T to another trying to get those "love" feelings again.

In my case, though, I acted this way with others who were NOT Ts, but who were real people in my life. It's a pattern since childhood. So, working on the attachment, or "falling in love with my Ts" if you want to call it that, is a big part of what I am working on in therapy right now. I'm exploring where the need to have T be so important to me, comes from. My T thinks I AM getting better, and that the attachment to her is healing. We both know it's not really about her, but transference works that way, so she is the one who can help me work through those feelings that seem to be about her.

It's not easy because a part of me doesn't want to get better, but my T knows what she's doing, and I trust that I will get my needs met by her and then be able to move away from her.