T cares about me, same as with her other clients. She has said she couldn't work with anyone she didn't care about. Can't really imagine how someone who didn't care about people could go into the profession. (though from reading and experience, I know they do).
Caring in other rel'ships is different. The caring is deeper and based on experiencing the person. What I mean, in a t rel'ship the t only gets a glimpse of my life. She only gets the stuff I share, which may be stuff I have only ever shared with her (like csa), but there is so much more to me and my life that my friends see and share in day in and day out. And my caring of them is different than my caring for t. I care about t, but I basically know nothing about her everyday life. Nothing about her impacts me emotionally. I don't share her ups and downs, so the caring is not as deep or as meaningful, I think, as caring for people in my daily life.
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