Today my T said something like “the relationship is the therapy” or something like that and I’m wondering if anyone can give me their interpretation of what you think that means and also if it’s legitimate. He said it after I told him that it feels like therapy has created a whole new problem for me, one that is different from the reasons that initially brought me to therapy. Mostly, I have this huge push/pull dynamic with therapy where I want to go, but I don’t want to go if that makes any sense. I don’t feel like this ambivalence is a problem (at least not an obvious one) in the rest of my life, only in therapy. Anyway, he mentioned the word attachment and abandonment and said how my ambivalence is coming from a “younger place” and how “the relationship is the therapy.” Does that seem right? I mean, isn’t that a little vague? Shouldn’t we have more specific goals?