When I was in couples t, he always said "we have to end now" and looked down, at the exact time we were supposed to end. It usually felt bad, like there were a lot more things I wanted to talk about, and it totally amazed me that he could know so precisely what time it was.

It is really odd, and nice, that he's so different now. I look at the clock or my watch a lot during the session, sometimes because I guess I want it to end more quickly, sometimes because I want to make sure I don't get caught up in something when there's not enough time left. In spite of that, I don't always notice when the end of the time has come. He has sometimes said when it was time to end, but he usually keeps letting the session go on, 5 or 10 minutes over. I start uncomfortably touching my wallet, waiting for him to get ready to make another appointment. Now once we've run over time, he asks me if I have to get back to work. Maybe he wants me to end the sessions.