That old saw about not doing business with friends doesn't get quoted over & over for not reason. I just know this causes your T pain too.\, but what is she to do about it? Not charge you? Would you feel better then ... if you were "just" friends? Then how would you know you got her professional best, not just what was left over after an exhausting day? What was most easily tossed off?

You two are so close, which is wonderful in many ways. But in others it is so complicating. The money issue is the most obvious to me.

"Don't do business with friends." My T and I aren't friends, not even close, & he charges me $3/minute for emails! Am I out-raged? Could me, almost was ... but this is business. Taking care of me isn't being my friend, it's the way he pays his bills.

That's not how I think about it when I'm sitting in front of him, but really--that's what it is.

Try not to think about the money issue, Sarah Michelle. Your T loves you AND takes care of you. She is a specially gifted woman who can keep that balance without damanging either of you. Be very grateful. Please, sweetheart.

Roadie