I'm sorry he disappointed you with this, growly. I don't think you're nuts for wanting this.

I'm not going to dance to kashi's tune with answering a poll, so I'll just say that you have a right to feel as comfortable and safe as you need to feel with a therapist.

For me, that's feeling as though my emotions are not being toyed with under the guise of therapy, that my therapist shows respect to me and her other clients by not talking about any of us to each other, and that overall I don't feel disliked or rejected. (I ran up against this last one over the cold issue of a couple weeks ago.) This may or may not equate love in your view, or even in my therapist's view, but it's what I need in order to explore my own issues with someone I will never really know.