I don't think the situation is static nor does a good therapist just sit there and take it. There has to be something "happening"/resolving or neither party is going to continue with the relationship. A client begins to understand the transference or what is going on does not "matter", is what the client does with everyone and doesn't work and eventual termination does not really change anything as the client was not changed by the relationship with the therapist in the first place. With any understanding though, the client's ignorance gig is up and the understanding continues until the client is in a better place and termination leaves the client better off.