Dear MC,
So, I'm basically a puddle right now. You talking about ways you tried to make your kids feel reassured and safe when they were younger to help us with D...it's left me as a puddle of warm fuzziness and paternal transference and...I don't know what else. I mean, you were talking about sitting outside your kids' room during sleep training, sometimes in sweats or PJs, which feels like a paternal thing, but you also mentioned sometimes in your underwear, which...well, that fires in a slightly different part of my brain. And saying how as a parent you were/are dealing with some of the same stuff I deal with as a parent. You were being endearing and dorky and caring all at once, which apparently just fires all the positive, warm and fuzzy emotional triggers for me... So yeah, basically a big puddle right now. Need to mop myself up by the time H and D get home...
Love you,
LT