Last night I emailed T with a request (from the heart), and today I have received 4 emails from him already. All brief. We go back and forth. (I think we are done for the day.) He uses a lot of smileys and exclamation marks. Me too. How can these emails feel so good? I almost feel on overload from his warmth and caring, even though, objectively, the content of the messages is fairly neutral. But I can read beyond the words through the little things like the smileys and the informality of the language. I just feel cared for and responded to. Like his emails are stroking me and I purr like a cat.