Even if it's mutual, I think that there is still going to be a lot of hurt and pain because who in REAL LIFE do we ever really say goodbye to like this?

A friend who moves away? We'd still talk to them on the phone or Facebook.

Someone who dies? We know our therapists are still out there....

I really hope it's not a terrible process when both agree to it, because I know that it's in my future.

The only positive thing I've had from a termination session was saying everything I wanted to say before it was over. Even then, down the road, you wish you would have said something different. For me, I would have realized that it was my T who was a douche, not me.