My T hasn't used the word, but admitted to having certain feelings and/or engaging in certain behaviors. He has said that he wished that he could make me feel better about something negative I thought about myself. I have said to him, after he walked me to my car after I told the receptionist about the sort of creepy guy who kept finding me at my car after T, that he is very protective of me. He's had certain life experiences that might make him protective of women in general, and I expect that it's perhaps that desire to protect others that played a role in him choosing T as a career. He sort of denied that he was protective, I was practically sticking my tongue out and saying, "neener, neener, you are too" and he finally admitted that he "wanted me to feel protected and safe in this room." I might have said I didn't need his protection or otherwise made him feel bad about it. And he has said a few times in different ways that I have some similarities to his wife. This doesn't feel creepy to me, although I do find it somewhat confusing in that she is a professional musician, and a pretty famous one at that, and I do this very specialized area of law and don't have a creative spark at all. So I don't really get how we can be similar except we are apparently both jewish feminist types.