This is unreal. I am so so grateful for this excerpt. I can not tell you how thankful I am. I have been looking for some explanation to what the hell is going on with me. I have seen this new T only 3 times and my feelings are quite intense. This has happened over and over and over and I hate it. I'm horrified at it. I don't want her to know how desperate for love I really am. That's pretty embarrassing. What is so strange is that I never accepted it from my spouse or any boyfriend. It just happens with therapists or teachers. I can't quite figure that out. I don't want to mention it to her, because I'm still uncertain as to how much experience she has, how she'll handle it, and I don't want to make her uncomfortable so soon in the process. She has not brought up "the therapeutic relationship" at all, so she may not even operate that way. I feel like I can't really deal with any issues at all because these feelings are so intense and seem to take over everything. It happens every time I enter therapy. I never seem to resolve it. Thanks again for posting this. I've printed it out to potentially show it to her one day.