Dear MC,
Thanks for the thoughtful response. It was nice that you said you appreciated my sharing that with you. Especially since I felt weird about some of it, particularly the part about wishing I could cry in your arms. And the fact that I saved your voicemail message from January and listen to it sometimes when I'm feeling sad or lonely.

I'm glad you think my ideas about "safe spaces" make sense and that you agree that I should discuss it with H (enough to put one word in all caps and use exclamation points even!). I assume it's OK to do that in your office--since it would be nice to be in a safe space while talking about safe spaces...plus I know it bothers H that I'm more easily comforted/calmed by you than by him... But yeah, thanks.