I think that we see the more extreme cases of attachment and abandonment on this board. Many people I know have seen a t for a while, been helped and gone on with their lives. And never posted a word on a forum about their therapy. And I suspect that for those that do, once therapy is successfully terminated (what ever that means to a client) the client goes on with things and never posts here again. So I think the view from this forum is probably a bit skewed.

That said, it is true that ts leave clients. Due to a personal decision or a crisis, some clients have to deal with the resulting feelings of abandonment. And that sucks. Especially for people like me!

T1's brother just died. Suddenly. at the O'Hare airport actually, on an escalator as he was heading somewhere for work. I find that rather scary. The challenge for me is to engage (with t and anyone else) with people knowing that no relationship lasts forever.