There's sort of two levels, with how he relates to Crane; the professonal and the personal. They're both pretty similar, to be honest. On one, he is seeing Crane for therapy, and has enough respect for the man to take his advice and counsel and actually listen, despite it possibly making him uncomfortable. What's more, he's inclined to take what praise he can get there, and value it all more preciously so because - in the context of the doctor/patient - he has to (or at least, is subconsciously making) himself look up to Crane to help him see the things he can't.
On the personal level- Crane is a very intelligent man, and with an academic/professory past as well, they have a good few shared experiences. Outside of the therapy, Robert sees him as a younger peer, and respects him a bit more than he would most- possibly due to the whole therapy-on-the-side thing, possibly due to that whole there is so much opportunity here they seem to agree upon. (Even if it's in...different ways.)
I'm really looking forwards to where this all goes, because until it all blows up in his face, he does trust Crane - to a degree. Short of stronger manipulations, there are only so many people he fully trusts, but Crane's about on the best level as anyone could normally hope for at this point. It's not so much a suspicion/distrust as a reluctance to admit things, and with the fact that he does discuss at least some of it in their sessions, well...
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There's sort of two levels, with how he relates to Crane; the professonal and the personal. They're both pretty similar, to be honest. On one, he is seeing Crane for therapy, and has enough respect for the man to take his advice and counsel and actually listen, despite it possibly making him uncomfortable. What's more, he's inclined to take what praise he can get there, and value it all more preciously so because - in the context of the doctor/patient - he has to (or at least, is subconsciously making) himself look up to Crane to help him see the things he can't.
On the personal level- Crane is a very intelligent man, and with an academic/professory past as well, they have a good few shared experiences. Outside of the therapy, Robert sees him as a younger peer, and respects him a bit more than he would most- possibly due to the whole therapy-on-the-side thing, possibly due to that whole there is so much opportunity here they seem to agree upon. (Even if it's in...different ways.)
I'm really looking forwards to where this all goes, because until it all blows up in his face, he does trust Crane - to a degree. Short of stronger manipulations, there are only so many people he fully trusts, but Crane's about on the best level as anyone could normally hope for at this point. It's not so much a suspicion/distrust as a reluctance to admit things, and with the fact that he does discuss at least some of it in their sessions, well...