I feel like my t genuinely "gets" me, yes. She knows me better than anyone else in my life. And I do feel like she is part of my life, at least for while she's my t. We talk about our therapeutic relationship on a regular basis, and it's always me that starts that particular conversation. I don't know honestly why I need to talk about it every now & then but I do. This last time we talked about it, I do know why though, was because I was concerned about her health, because she's had a cough for quite awhile (that turned out to be allergies) and she said herself "I'll be part of your life for awhile yet" during that conversation. That made me feel very held. I said to her a long time ago that "therapy's not real life" and she looked a bit hurt by that statement and asked me "what do you mean it's not real life? Of course it is." or something like that. I wrote an essay shortly after that titled "Why Therapy is not Real Life" and the funny thing about it was, that by the end of the essay, I had disproved what I had set out to prove. So that's why I believe that yes she is a part of my life, at least for now. I think I got kinda off topic here. Sorry, I tend to ramble.