Hang in there K... Maybe while working with this sub t you can practice work on something totally different than you do with your real T. Maybe you could practice different ways of telling someone you really don't want to talk about what they want to talk about. LOL For example... just changing the subject didn't work last session. Maybe if you see her again you could test out a more direct approach. Like,.. "hey you said we could talk about stuff I wanted to talk about, but you keep going back to the housing thing..I don't really want to discuss THAT!" The cool thing here is she is just a sub t, if you %#@&#! her off... who cares. MAYBE you could work on testing different ways to tell someone politely to F' off. Just kidding. I'm just thinking that maybe you can explore something new with this sub t without risking a major rupture.