I said that T has a realistic grasp of how therapy affects me, but I guess I was answering for my marriage counselor rather than my T, since I just got off the phone with him. He's talked some about his own therapy, and I know he's had some personal issues he's dealt with in the past. And I think he at least to some extent gets how therapy affects me. I'm just not sure he completely understands how *he* affects me and why I want to talk to him so much and am so intensely emotional where things involving him are concerned.

With T, I think to some extent she gets it. But then sometimes, I don't know, like the other day when she asked me why saying good-bye to people was so hard for me. Shouldn't she know the answer to that? I know she was trying to get me to talk, but I thought that most people had trouble saying good-bye... I also get the sense she's someone who never faced a whole lot of difficulties in life, including emotionally, but she might just do a good job of hiding it (she's much more closed about herself than MC).