Return with me to the golden days of yesteryear when a patient, as Freud relates somewhere, tried to give him a hug after a session. He says he rebuked her and then he thought about it. As I in my autodidactic ignorance think, that's when he developed the notion of transference.
So when you said you wanted to give the RM a bear hug, the primary processes kicked in and that incident came to my alleged mind. And because you are a professional, I thought you would be (a) amused and (b) stimulated to thought about the wonder of cyber-communications (and the images we impose on our correspondents), feelings about authority figures, and all like that there.
That's pretty much it.
Those were along the lines of my initial sorts of thoughts.
Then, my paranoid module kicked in. LOL.
Glad my first hunch was right.