I don't want to hug my T, but that does not mean there is anything wrong or restrained in our therapeutic relationship. I trust him more than anybody else, I know that he likes me, and I can be more open and vulnerable around him than I have ever been in my life. I just don't need that kind of physical closeness with my T. It's a mixture of individual and cultural factors, I think.

I would not agree with the point of view that hugging your T is always wrong for everybody, to be clear. For many people it is clearly a very beneficial thing. And for all I know, it might change for me at some point so that I would like to hug him, though I find it pretty unlikely.