So Bob, here you are in my office, and we're looking at each other across the table.

It's true. And we're going to answer some questions from the Patrons and see if anyone cares.

Let's do it. So Andrea from Mexico says an actually kind of a sad email here.

My very important and very beloved therapist is dying. And she hasn't cut me out of her life

during the process. Although she officially ended our therapy, I'm very grateful that I'm still a part

of her life. But I don't know how to be there, what to say, and when to reach out. The very

boundary and professional therapeutic relationship we had is shifting to a much more personal human

two-person caring for each other kind of relationship. I don't know how to manage any of this,

and I'm very, very sad. I really don't want her to react to me for my sake because I am and will be

okay. Bob, what do you think? There's something really sweet and lovely about the whole thing.

I get though that it feels weird that things have shifted in this way. And it seems as though

you're relating like two humans here dealing with something about as human as it gets your therapist

mortality. I can understand the kind of the oddness of it in that you don't have a script for

how this, how this, what your relationship is now. And it's probably a bit bumpy for both of you.

It's at least a little bit, bumpy is a bit strong. I think actually just sort of like we don't know.

We don't know. And so I hope that you'll keep talking about it because to some degree,

she's still a therapist, right? I mean, I always think once I'm somebody's therapist,

I'm in my heart, I'm always the therapist. So my guess is there's probably room for

that dynamic. And it's very clear to me that you care a great deal about your therapist and wish

to be a source of comfort and support for her and wish to avoid being, you know, a distraction for

her while she's, you know, dying. And you know, talk about it. Yeah, that's what I would do.

Yeah. To piggyback on that, what I'll say is do what feels right to you, Andrea. Yeah.

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