Yep. This says it all. The wishful thinking like "it's not always harmful", "it can be love between two consenting adults" etc. has never proved to work in reality in my experience. I am yet to hear one single love story of this kind that ended up not harming one or both parties. I am not saying there aren't such stories because I always try to keep an open mind on any issue whenever I can. All I am saying I've never heard of such examples and I've heard many personal accounts already, most of those experiences, by the way, started with this exact rationalization "my case could be different" or "some circumstances are different"..They all start the same - rationalize, hold on to the false hope, make their dream "come true", if the therapist allows the boundary to get violated, only to realize later that their story is just the same as everybody else's who's gone through that experience, which is the story of harm. People don't have deep understanding of what constitute a conflict of interest and a power imbalance in therapy. They think they know it but their understanding is intellectual and superficial. They know only because they've been told about it. It's not real knowledge. Real knowledge is when you know because you've lived it.