Ah, I love this topic. I’m in the “I fall asleep at night fantasising that you platonically hold me” attachment group. It took me months to muster up the courage to tell him. The first time around, I told him I see him as a parent figure. A few sessions later, I used the phrase “I’m attached to you”. Both times he took it really well: just smiled and told me it’s normal. He was very accepting and kind about the whole thing (though I never alluded to the extent of my attachment. He doesn’t, for example, know that I sometimes sigh at his picture on the internet, or that I wrote him a drunk email confessing my undying child-like love (though thankfully I didn’t send it—I think I might have never crawled back out of my rabbit hole if I did)). He does, however, know that I’m afraid he’ll abandon me because sometimes he reassured me that he won’t.

Thank you for the link to that article, btw—great read.