Thanks for the interesting replies. We did talk about it last time--my T usually doesn't forget to bring up stuff like that. We will most likely have to talk about it again though so I can understand even more specifically. But what he said was that things I write about is therapy--things he wants to respond to face to face, and that when responding via email things can be misinterpreted or he can't see how I'm responding and I can misunderstand, etc. So he doesn't like to do that via email. Sometimes my email might require a more thorough answer though, like when I was out of town and something happened, it was appropriate since I was so far away and my resources were few. I also will sometimes tell him via email I don't want to go on or I want to end it. He said that saying this usually requires an answer or for him to check it out. He says I will say that rather refrequently--it's not that he doesn't believe me, but just that I have those feelings a lot. Soooo... I understand better about not wanting to get into "therapy" via email since there is so much chance of things going wrong. I totally get that. That helps me. He did say that he thought it helped me to write via email though, like journaling. So maybe we will talk about it some more and figure it out further. I don't leave anything hanging with him. I'm pretty direct and open because I know it is best for me.....thoughts?