Regarding how one can be invested in something and not suffer a tremendous sense of loss when it ends: I think of therapy as being kind of like a class, a situation in which I am there to learn. I am invested in it, I want to learn. But I think at a certain point I'll be ready to end it, and maybe it will be kind of bittersweet and all, but it'll be okay to move on.

When I read threads on here I always feel like some people focus so much on the therapist, trying to read them and figure out what they're up to and what they think or feel or whatever... and it just seems like the wrong focus. Therapy is not about the therapist.