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This paper revisits the case of “Karen” (“Whose Bad Objects Are We Anyway? Repetition and Our Elusive Love Affair with Evil,” PD 14/6) eight years after the time period described in the earlier paper, and uses this case material as a backdrop for discussing a relational reformulation of the termination process. The paper posits that an analysis conducted around a model of mind that holds multiple self-other configurations as the fundamental organizing structures needs to take these self-other configurations into account in ending an intensive treatment. Therefore termination becomes, from this perspective, a series of endings between multiple self-other dyads that have emerged during the treatment process. Extended clinical material is provided to illustrate this point of view.