Thanks so much critterlady! I think that I most like 1) the way that she uses the word transference because she acknowleges my fearing that she'll be like other people in my life when she's not and not the love transference definition that the term is generally used for--i.e. she normalizes the notion of transference which we all struggle with sometimes as a bad thing, 2) the image of relationships as tapestries, and 3) her acknowledging that our relationship is indeed "real," even if it is bounded by the limits of a therapy relationship.