This is where i think it is the clients responsibility, not the ts. All we are entitled to from them is a decent response, a non-argumentative one, an agreement. Wow and right now im thinking even that is a lot to expect. We have the right to ask for what we want. Its not their job to take care of us. Its their job to help strengthen us until we can and will ask? But after that point, its on us to practice asking on them. Imo.

Eta - because the point is not a smooth relationship between t and client, but for the client to be able to navigate rough waters outside of t.