In her courageous exploration of therapeutic action in a long, tumultuous analytic treatment, Joye Weisel-Barth illuminates many factors contributing to the treatment's ultimate success; but she does not, in my view, give sufficient attention to the central role of analytic love—the reciprocal affection and deep commitment that developed between analyst and analysand over 3 decades. At various crisis points in the treatment, Weisel-Barth makes choices to respond spontaneously to the patient's needs in ways that lie outside the limits of the traditional analytic frame. I argue that these more controversial actions remained analytic because Weisel-Barth never abandoned her role as analyst (defined as guardian of the patient's welfare and analytic growth within a fundamentally asymmetrical role relationship). I briefly explore the concept of “analytic adoption”—a particular form of analytic love—which I believe occurs in certain very long-term treatments, such as the one described by Weisel-Barth.