@LonesomeTonight I like how your ex-T said, "That doesn't mean I don't feel love for you, too." I think especially when you work with someone for a while, it's hard to not have a kind of love for them. Right now I could never imagine telling Current T I love her, though part of me does. I didn't start saying it to former T until about year 8. And she never said it back until our last session ever, even though I suspect she did feel a sort of love toward me for a while before then. But had she said it prior to then, it might have been weird. At the end, I definitely needed to hear it, especially as the termination was forced by her illness and not something either one of us wanted.