Ah. I am talking about the two year rule and the personal rule many therapists hold to about never having a relationship of any kind with a client. I think the 'while in therapy' thing is different.

In the legal world, we have a no sex with clients rule also, but much less onerous, with no two year limitation. I imagine that the mental health world is similar to the legal world in that there are a handful of "bad actors" who create a problem. In response, the profession creates this one size fits all rule, and then the only people who follow it are the people who would never have taken advantage of a client in the first place. The difference, I think, is that the legal profession acknowledges the power differential in the relationship, and that a client may not feel he or she is in a position to say NO to the professional, and therefore protects them. However, we respect the fact that our clients are adults and capable of making their own decisions once the professional relationship is over. That is where my issue is with the mental health community.