Ha ha, yes, me too! I do not want to be friends with my T. I am very comfortable with him therapist, me client. We got a good thing going, so why mess it up with being friends?

When people have written they want to be friends with their T after termination, I have kind of interpreted that to mean they don't want to say good-bye, that they wish there was a way they could keep their T in their lives. They can't be therapist-client anymore, so they search for a way to be something else. My T has not told me I have to terminate therapy (yet?) so I don't have that pressure to seek another kind of relationship with him. At our last meeting, I raised the issue that perhaps I didn't need to see him anymore. I thought that might trigger his "terminate client protocol", but it didn't. He just said I could come see him whenever I needed to, and if I didn't need to see him for a while, that was fine, to just come back when I needed to, that he would be there. Indefinitely, it seemed. I agree with TheRealDeal that if I did become friends with T, that would mess up my ability to see him again as a therapist (no dual relationships). I wouldn't want to lose him in that capacity.