Therapy was always a tool for me. I liked my therapists well enough, a great deal actually, but I saw them for fairly specific reasons and with the absolute goal to get to a point where I wouldn't need therapy anymore. The relationship with them wasn't on the list of why I saw them at all; it was important only so far as I needed to work with someone I got along with -- that I synced up with. We had good and effective therapy relationships that I knew served that purpose, but I never expected more from them than that.