This reminded me, I told my t one time that "therapy is not real life". She seemed to be kinda hurt by that statement. I couldn't really explain myself at the time. Later I wrote a paper about it - why therapy is not real life - funny thing was by the time I got to the end of it I had circled back around to recognizing that it is actually a microcosm of real life and so therefore what I set out to prove what I felt, disproved it to myself. That was an interesting experiment that I never shared with her. Perhaps I should have.