I don't know if I would be "friends" with my T or not. I like, love and respect my T and our discussions/talks together are always interesting and enjoyable but friendship, for me, is also "doing" and giving and having a "mutual" part. I don't know that I could give my T anything she wants/needs? That, to me, would be the hard part about becoming friends with my particular T. I have a good friend from high school who became a T and I'm friends with her easily enough because we have a common history and have done "stuff" together and have other interests and mutual friends, etc. I can't quite imagine doing stuff with my T. We once had a session in a restaurant when she forgot her office keys and it was a bit awkward. I can't imagine being with her trying to "avoid" the focus of talking about what I'm thinking/doing and wondering if she was doing the same. The relationship is so structured as a therapy relationship I think it would be very hard for either of us to change that to a "casual" friendly one? I once mentioned to my T that she was psychologist 24/7 and she denied that; it's her job, she explained, not part of her self in that way. I know she has friends; I remember a winter with snow where she got stuck and couldn't get home and explained to me the next week she had stayed with friends. It use to be odd to me too, to watch her relate to other therapists in the offices we were using; she was new to them and didn't know the other therapist, her "landlady" :-) well either! I overheard the other therapist inviting her to a part at the offices for a few weeks later and how awkward my T sounded trying to respond. I had just assumed she'd be comfortable in any situation like she was with me, LOL.