I really appreciate when my t tells me "you did good work today" or things like that. Because she doesn't say it every session, I tend to feel like it's true rather than just a platitude. (Still, who knows. She's a t after all. Nothing derogatory meant by that, it just is what it is.)

However - on the other hand - as I realized last week AFTER our session, I'm dealing with some lovely transference again. I realized that I'm getting something from our t relationship that I didn't get from my mother when growing up and little Artemis is responding to that. And I'm feeling angry also, as in <insert stomping feet here> "I don't WANT to need you! I needed HER too and look what happened with that!" We shall be talking about this during tomorrow's session. I am not looking forward to it in the least. Transference is hard.