LT

I agree, It doesn't matter really what the 'feelings' are, talking to someone about how you feel about them, is very hard for some people. For someone like me, it was not something allowed growing up.... we were basically raised to keep everything to ourself. Then you get to a point in life where you try it with a few people, even just simple feelings of you are a nice person etc and they reject you etc so then that becomes a fear.

For me, it's huge that I can even say anything, even though I can't say it out loud and probably never will, telling my T I feel love for him, was incredibly hard and shameful and I still feel sick about it, even though he has handled it well. I just keep going in my mind to a place of being rejected, mocked etc, so I hate that it's out there. I would not say its a love interest for me, love feelings, you bet... but interest? Eh...

I also don't feel any parental feelings for my T. So yes in many cases people do get love interest feelings for their T but it's not always. Honestly, even saying something like "You are really pissing me off" is hard for me to say to anyone. I just can't handle talking to someone about how I feel about them. Everyone is different of course but that's my take on it.