Well for the past 17 months we are just doing skype and phone sessions since she has been out of the country,so, we usually text one another and one of us says, hey you got time to talk. If the other one does, then we call her. How we start depends on which inside kids calls her. So sessions moght start with

- hey T guess what?
- hi t how are you doing
- what you doing t.
-i gotta talk to you t.
- we usually chit chat a while about whats new with both of us

Endings usually go with one of us noticing the time and saying "oh my gosh its getting late! We better get going. When should we talk again?are you going to be home on ______?" Or one of us starting to yawn or start to fall asleep and saying its time to head to bed.

When t was still in town and had her office, we would go park outside her house, or park at her office and start walking to her house and meet her halfway, and take a walk with her. And when we saw each other give her a hug. And just chit chat a while.
On the way out, we end with the same-- the sessions lasted four or five hours, we are both too tired to function anymore so we better get going, give a few hugs on the way out, usually drive her home, say good night, figure out when our next session will be.