Does your T say things to you in an indirect way?

Once I asked my T if there were things he thought about stuff I said that he didn't say to me. This was early in therapy. He told me this analogy that once he worked at a mental facility for criminals where he had a patient that had killed her parents. When he would see her for counseling she would talk about how much she missed her parents and that she wished they would come visit. He told me he could not tell her the truth because she wasn't ready to know the truth. This analogy would then be interpretted to mean... yes he may "see" things or "know" things that he wouldn't tell me because I wasn't ready to know the truth.

So fast forward to later in therapy... after having a rough time of it and emailing T (which he said I could do but should not expect emails in return) while feeling low and missing weeks of therapy due to vacations, my T said things like "he had to have boundaries with clients in order to stand working with them" and "if a person doesn't have anything to offer to me, then I wouldn't spend time with them"... now I had high anxiety in this session and I'm sure I'm just remembering bits and pieces and perhaps without the right context..

Ever since the comment about not telling someone something if they are not ready to hear it, I think I wondered if my T was trying to tell me things in his off handed comments or in indirect ways?

So what I'm asking is if anyone has experienced their T saying something that maybe could possibly be hurtful in an indirect way instead of just outright saying it? Like would your T bring up boundaries with clients in a general way and expect you to figure out he meant you were emailing too much? Did you ask T about it and did T confirm it was meant directly towards you? or does your T always approach everything in a straight forward manner?

I'm a pretty straight shooter so I've never been one to understand or pick up on meanings when people "beat around the bush".