This is something my therapist casually worked into conversation. What does it mean? The interaction was me saying I couldn't do his job, and him saying people come in to talk about their problems and how to solve them and then "it's not like real life" was worked in there. I'm sure I'm forgetting things. Maybe I'm thinking too much about it, but the first place my mind went was that how he acts toward me isn't real, it's a show. That he cares about me isn't real, it's part of the performance. But maybe he just meant that in the real world people don't talk about their problems?