A short time ago, I wouldn't have understood this but I do now. (Remember when I kept insisting that your T couldn't "feel your feelings". Sorry--ignorance then too!! I get that now too!)

I'm glad for the here-and-now self-disclosure. It makes the relationship much richer and real to me. I'm hard of hearing and it is a big issue with me but others don't understand much about it, or care to. But my T makes every attempt to and sometimes when we're talking about something unrelated she will comtemplate for a minute and say "I'm just thinking about how the hearing difficulty would come into play or by affected in this and what that would feel like." Other times she has told me how she's feeling about something I've told her. It just feels so good! It reinforces the feeling of 'being heard'.

I've experienced the opposite end of the spectrum too, the "blank slate" and it's very lonely.