What happens when you're seeing a therapist for the attachment and the warm fuzzy feelings (I don't mean this disrespectfully. I do understand that we need this in our lives. I just couldn't think of any other way to put it) and you have no goals and one day the therapist starts wondering where the therapy is going? What if they talk to a supervisor and they decide therapy isn't really going anywhere and there's no justification for continuing it? Maybe it isn't unethical, but are there many therapists who will just see someone who wants the relationship and nothing more? Or is that what we're talking about?

What about insurance companies? They want to see progress and they don't want to pay indefinitely for therapy. What if they do a review and decide the therapy isn't helping and they won't pay anymore? I can see that self pay has advantages, but some people can't do that and they rely on insurance companies.

I do think the relationship is important, but is it enough to keep going on and on? Is it unreasonable for the therapist and client to believe that one day therapy will end somehow? It can't just go on and on can it?

I don't know. I can see many different angles to "does therapy have to have goals" and I'm just not sure what is okay, so to speak. It's VERY, VERY confusing to me.