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sidony said:
I sometimes feel I'm in the minority, but I don't worry about termination in the slightest.

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post">That could be because your T will allow you to see him as long as you need/want to. I don't worry about termination because it's something I want to do but because my T told me early on he doesn't do longterm therapy (greater than 3 years). So the worry comes from what he said. If he did therapy with clients indefinitely, I wouldn't give termination a second thought. I would let it happen on its own timetable (if it happened at all). I think many Ts don't do longterm therapy, so I suspect this is where a lot of the tension over the topic comes from. You're lucky, Sid, to have a T who will see you until he retires. I guess one approach would be to see one T for 3 years, or whatever his limit was, then terminate, then start with another T for 3 years, etc. But I don't want to do that. I truly cannot picture doing therapy with anyone but my T.

At some point, I will probably become unable to pay for therapy, so that is another problem lurking. Insurance doesn't cover it and I have a family to support.