I certainly hope there's nothing wrong with loving your therapist, since I told both my T and marriage counselor last week that I loved them (I'd told them once a year ago, too, but not since). T's response surprised me--we were talking about how unique the T-client relationship is, and she said how it was different because it's not reciprocal, adding "Not that I don't love you too." Which was very different from her "That's sweet" response last year (which kind of upset me). We've definitely become much closer and connected over the past year though (our 4th year together), so it kind of makes sense.

With MC, it's much more complicated, since there's some paternal (and sometimes erotic) transference there. When I told him last year, was on the phone, and I phrased it as, "So if I love you, is that OK?" and he reassured me that it was. This time, did it over e-mail, much more straightforwardly, and his response seemed kind of impersonal, but a phonecall the next day helped a bit. Of course I hope for reciprocation (platonically), but I can't bring myself to ask him for that.

Sorry for a slight thread hijack...might need to start my own thread on here.