I made mine promise that she couldn't promise to not abandon me. That is the only out and out promise, where she used the word promise. We talked a fair amount about this topic when it came up and she did say that she could not see any reason within her control or behaviors I would do that would result in her to stop seeing me and that she had no plans at this time to leave the profession or the area. There have been many other statements where she has set or tried to set expectations.

This is a current topic in my therapy - how I take things said and behaviors done as promises and what does it mean to me when a promise is broken.

I picked up a children's book about expectations - it is interesting to me because human predictive modeling comes from many types of information and how do I short circuit my predictive modeling as to not get hurt by things that were never written in stone.