This is your interpretation. If you found it patronizing then you have missed the real meaning of what I was trying to say but that's not something that is under my control.

I see things differently and I have also different experiences. For me being a client and being loved are not mutually exclusive things. Love doesn't ask whether someone is a client or not. Also, a therapist (or anyone in a similar role) who is uncomfortable with loving feelings should perhaps think twice whether they have chosen a proper profession for themselves.

I guess lots of confusion comes from defining love. Maybe for some people love itself is defined via the people it is appropriate to love at all. So, if someone's definition says that love is what you feel to your parents, children and spouse then it's logical that this person by definition it would not be appropriate to love anyone else.

Also, when according to someone's definition love always means intense longing feelings then obviously to that person a therapist loving her patients doesn't sound appropriate.

I'm personally adopting a wider definition, which basically means willing the good for another - willing in terms of feeling and doing. I love my children that way, I also try to love my spouse that way, I may be at some point able to love my parents that way. I don't see any reason why I couldn't love anyone else in this manner too or why my therapist couldn't love me this way or why anyone else's therapist couldn't love their clients that way.