Thank you so much for sharing this, Alex. It reminds me a lot of my relationship with my T, and how he has stressed that he is with me. Feeling what I am feeling. The different between empathy and sympathy-- to feel with, not for . It also makes me think about viewing the therapist as an object. Maybe it is not necessarily pathological, but perhaps I am not ready to see him as a person yet. It is quite possible that I am not able to accept that a human can be endlessly understading, compassionate, etc. And why should I? I have never encountered such a thing in life before.