WantingtoHeal: I want to tell you that you aren't alone! The article helped me too though I already knew that my "pattern" as I call it is somewhat normal for those in therapy. But mine is more intense, like yours, and happens with every T I've seen. Before Ts, it happened with others who were unavailable to me. I "fall in love" with them, I obsess about them, I want them to be everything to me. That's become my main issue in therapy, how to stop wanting someone to be "that person who they cannot be" to me. It's very painful but I think it CAN be worked through. In this therapy I'm focusing a lot on what has caused me to behave in that way. While the article explains a lot, we each have our individual family history, genetic makeup, and personality.

Since this is your pattern, it will probably help you very much to tell your T when you feel comfortable, that is, so you can address why you feel the way you do for Ts and teachers, and what you can do to get some of those love needs met by people in your RL as well as some from your T.