MC: "He won't abandon you...until he does. And then he'll deny that he did it."
(If I was writing this a few months ago, his would have been: "It's OK.")
Current T: "T...Dr. T."
Or maybe: "I have boundaries. That's a good thing!"
Or, his response when I said I didn't fit any of the demographics he generally works with: "It's OK. You do this a long time, you get bored!"
Ex-T: "Just ride the wave of anxiety."