I'm with you. I detest the whole blank slate thing. I don't ask questions just for the sake of asking. I could not put trust in someone who didn't trust me enough to answer even the simplest of questions. My current therapist just answers my questions and engages in normal conversation. If my question of "what grade is your daughter in?" got met with "why do you want to know?" when my question was a lead in to how horrible teenage girls are to each other, that would frustrate and distract me from where I was going.

As an aside, the more I know about him, the more I trust him and the less I ask.