Does your therapist ever talk about their kids, or even somewhat compare you to their kids?

Because mine, like... she doesn't outright compare me to her son. But she always talks about how sensitive I am, and how HE'S really sensitive. And I told her recently that sometimes I do puzzles to calm down even though that's weird, and she told me that it's not weird because her son is the same way. And then she tells me all about him, like stories from when he was a kid and when he was in high school and stuff. She tells stories about herself a lot to help make a point about me and my problems, and lately it's like she's been using her son in all the stories. Like she told me how he had to come to terms with the fact that he's a sensitive person. She was saying that *I* need to come to terms with it. She also told me about how he reacted to getting angry when he was a kid in order to show how one of my friends was being childish. And she told me he does sodoku puzzles to calm down and "keep his sanity" and all this other stuff.

There's something really motherly about her doing this that I find very, very comforting. We live in the same town and her kids went to the same school district and at least one of them did the same extracurricular as me. We talked about teachers the other day and we have the same criticisms of the school district. I just really feel like the fact that I apparently have some things remotely in common with her son + the fact that we live in the same town and her kids went to the same school district and all kinds of other stuff really makes her look at me in a maternal way.

I find that so, so warm and comforting and just good.

Can anyone else relate?