Mona, I understand that you feel jealous over this situation. Your friend has something that you want. Your feelings of jealousy are understandable, and quite frankly I am surprised that you have never felt this before (according to your original post). Jealousy is something that most of us have experience with beginning as very young children (snatching the toy we want away from another child for example). But new or not, know that you are not alone in having these sorts of feelings. That said, I think that perhaps you ought to feel lucky that you are not involved with this teacher/tutor/therapist (I still haven't quite been able to figure out what this person's role is). If a teacher/tutor they have definately crossed a line into an area of unethical behavior (whether you see it that way or not. I suspect that you don't see it this way because you would like to be treated the same way. Hence the jealousy. You don't imagine that you would be involved in anything that wasn't ethical so you don't see this as unethical) But trust those here who are telling you that this just isn't right on many levels. This could end up badly for both of them if word of this gets to the teacher's supervisors.