Thanks, you're probably right. I was really open with him about the stuff with MC--I mean, it's part of the reason I decided to see a new T, because I didn't think ex-T was helping with it--so I feel like he can't be surprised if transference would develop. If he didn't think he could handle that, he should have told me early on. Honestly, I picked a male T partly for that reason, because it could give me a chance to work through the transference more directly if it developed (and maybe then I'd realize MC wasn't so special after all...)--also because I had some negative maternal transference for my ex-T, who was a woman around my mother's age. I really think his stronger boundaries will make a big difference, as you said. Hopefully he can be more consistent with them than MC (though it won't take much!)