Dear university therapist,

Sometimes I wonder if you know. I feel like you probably do, no matter how hard I try to hide it, hoping it will go away, hoping that one day I won't love you as much as I do now.

I shouldn't feel this way. It really upsets me, but what can I do? How can I make it stop?

Sometimes I really wish you'd stop saying that you're proud of me. I wish you'd stop looking at me with those intensely emotional eyes when you tell me how much you love working with me. I wish you would just stop.

But also, please don't. It hurts, but I also need it. I need you. Do you know that? Can you see it?