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Originally Posted by Tollhouse
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It is a relationship... but a paid, professional relationship.
I will get dumped on, but the reality is, we are paying for a service. Most T's would not keep seeing us if the $$ ended.
Ts see 20-40 clients a week..... maybe more. It is their job.
The relationship with T is one-sided. It is all about us..... because it is their job and we pay them.
We don't pay friends, we don't pay partners.
Relationships with friends and partners are two-sided.
We know them and they know us. .... we never really know our Ts.
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It's true that we don't pay our friends and partners $, but don't relationships of all kinds work best if each person is getting something from it? In my therapeutic relationship I was hung up for a long time on whether it was *real*. But along the way, enough tender care came my way that I finally realized that I can pay for her time and professional expertise, but there is no amount of money that can buy her heart. She's not my *friend *... but she definitely cares for me.