Did you feel let down by her comments? perhaps feel as if she relaxed a boundary that you would much rather she hadn't? left you feeling a bit disappointed/insecure with her? that you like to feel/know she is the one that should remain in control of things and suddenly you feel she should have known about the pitfalls of putting someone in the "special client" role? just some ideas I was having as i read your post, please ignore if i am completely of the radar, hard to tell through this medium