[QUOTE=BudFox;5772488]People say that therapy and real relationships are basically the same[\QUOTE]

I am going to go through and read people's responses but I wanted to say one thing immediately. I don't know anyone who says that. Therapy and real relationships are vastly different and I think that anyone who says otherwise is kidding themselves. I can see where it might be easy to blur the two because of the intimate and personal nature of the therapy relationship, but if you stop and think about it, even for a minute, it's easy to remember the vital differences between.

I have been through an experience where the therapist and friend line became very blurred and it just ended up hurting me in the long run.