I liked that I didn't know much about my T (and I knew her for 27 years) but things snuck in the first time (she took a call once from her 8-9 year old son, in about 1979 so I "followed" how old he'd be through the years :-) and then around 2003 she was comparing me to her granddaughter (and I knew she had a groundson a year or two older :-) but it got better when I had grandchildren, etc. kind of like when I got married, my stepmother and I could discuss our "husbands" together :-) and finally have something to talk about after 35 years. If you think about it, you really don't know much about "her" just that she's married, etc. not about her interests or problems, etc. You can guess how much schooling she had, approximately how old she is and I think we do that unconsciously; I would have had trouble with a T having an office in her home, I knew my T's address and that always bothered me like I was afraid I'd go there to check it/her out.