I don't expect my therapist to be my friend at all - and she doesn't offer that. What we have is in many ways deeper than friendship, and I want it to be mostly one sided. I don't want to need to support her with her stuff and to be as accepting to her as she is to me. Nor do I see her as detached because we have a very close connection, I'll feel it as a loss when we end. But she serves a completely different purpose to my friends.