I understand this fear. Part of what's made it so difficult for me to officially terminate with MC is the thought that he seemed to care so much about me and then...when we terminate, will that caring just totally go away? Like flipping off a switch? When I asked him about it, he said it wouldn't, that the caring would still be there.

When I asked current T (before asking MC), I said, regarding MC, I feared the caring would go away, that there would be one less person in the world who cared about me. T said he didn't think that would be the case. How with former clients, he might think about them less often than when he was seeing them, but he still cares. So that made me feel better.