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I have another question. I think people can have a great 2-way (mutually beneficial) relationship without feeling the same way about each other.

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post">I agree and do have relationships like that.

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I'm sorry but I find what you are expressing so interesting, yet so foreign.

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post">I am interested in what you find foreign about it--just not something you have experienced? Yet.

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When your T expressed to you how much your therapeutic relationship meant to him, was the feeling you experienced something like...OMG, I finally found someone who feels the same way about me as I feel about them? Kind of like a major relief that you weren't again feeling something that the other party didn't feel.

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post">Well, my T didn't say anything to me about our therapeutic relationship. But we have talked about it before, and he definitely acknowledges that it is something very special. What T said to me in this session was that I was one of his very favorite people in the world. Not one of his favorite clients, not one of his favorite therapeutic relationships. His statement was beyond that, said person to person, not therapist to client. So this statement from him, together with how much I gave him at our last session and at others, and how much he was benefiting (which he allowed me to see), made me feel the mutualism/reciprocity. And yes, as you said, that felt really great!