I think if we were friends we would only be very casual pals. Like we get on, I'd probably bump into him and have a chat if we lived in the same town, but we don't have a lot of similar interests that would draw us together as friends. If we were friends, we'd probably just be occasional drinking buddies. Our current relationship is much more valuable to me than a potential friendship would likely have turned out to be, because he's an excellent therapist.