Any kind of relationship involves give and take. One person cannot do all of the giving or all of the taking without the relationship collapsing. So, what can we give our T's in a relationship? All we can do is offer money and that is money well-spent. It is for their expertise and their training and their skills.

As said by Rainbow Rose, we are not paying for their caring. If they care, that is their gift to us and instead of begrudging it, we should be touched deeply that they do.

Yes, if the world were more nurturing, we probably wouldn't need as much help but even so, most people have some emotional wounds whether they were caused by people deliberately or just because other people just don't know how to nurture.

I am very grateful to Freud because he was the one who brought the whole concept of psychological help being a need in our world. Without him, who knows how long it would have been before psychotherapy was 'invented'. Think about all the people in the centuries before us. They really had to just 'buck up' or else.