How about you wish that one of T's other clients has an obligation come up at work so then you can have their time slot? Or that they simply don't feel like going to therapy this week? Seems a little nicer. I hope it works out for you.

As for how I feel about T's other clients... I guess that's never really been an issue for me. For awhile, the client before me was this very tall, very talkative woman who is probably about 15 years older than me. I actually rather liked her because she was the only client I'd run into at T's office who said "hello" whenever she saw me. It felt friendly. Everyone else I see at T's office looks like they want to shoot me with daggers as I bounce in or out of T's door!

I do, however, feel a little awkward sometimes T brings up another client during session. It's almost always the same client. She jokes that she wishes she could fix me and this other client up because she thinks we'd hit it off. She says we're quite similar, all in good ways. I like that T thinks I'd be a good match for this other person (that I'm a good match period) and I like that T speaks positively and warmly about this other client, because it shows she does genuinely care, listen, and think about her clients, even when they're not sitting in front of her. I'd also like to think she speaks similarly about me to this other client. But, at the same time, it has crossed my mind: "Does she like this client more than me?" or "Does T have favorite clients?" I'd like to think that she likes me and this other client equally, and that she says the same things to this other client that she does to me. That she brings up the other client only because we're so similar and she thinks it would be cute to match us up-- not because she just can't stop talking about this other "amazing" client. And I really do think that is the case. In fact, she told me she spoke of me to the other client as well. But it still pushes a button sometimes. I don't need T to like me "more" than any other client, but it would hurt my feelings to hear that T liked another client "more" than me.