Dear MC,
I hope that e-mail I just sent wasn't too weird or personal. I think I just feel bad for expecting you to be exactly the same in spite of suffering a major loss. I hope I'm not crossing some sort of line saying that I hoped you were managing OK. I don't expect you to be honest with me about that, anyway.

I didn't ask you to respond to the e-mail, but I hope you at least say something...even if it's just "thanks, LT." Because it was a little difficult and scary to type. And I know you want me to say stuff in session, but I really don't think I'd be able to say that stuff out loud.

Hope you're not mad or anything. Or are going to not respond intentionally because we'd talked about my trying not to e-mail. If you don't respond, then I guess I'll just bring a copy along with me and ask if you need me to read it... But it would be good if you could just respond in some way or another before 2 pm Monday.

I normally would have ended it with "Have a good weekend!" but that would have seemed a really strange coda to that e-mail...

Love (wanted to sign it that way, too, but too scared),
LT