I think she was speaking more from experience, as she described my spiral into transference/infatuation, the work I did to make sense of it--discovering it was masking a hell of a lot of pain that I didn't want to face (and I had tremendously loving parents. It's not always about the parents!)... and how freeing it is to actually come to the realization that this love is NOT true romantic love. The therapist is showing us how we need to love ourselves!

With great respect,
Remy70