Dear T,
I think everything is OK with my job and I've managed to make up for it successfully. Part of me wants to email an update, but it can hold until Friday.


I'm of course not glad it happened, but I am glad that it helped you realize the extent of my catastrophizing (though I'm not entirely sure how you didn't realize that before?). And how, like you said, it extends to different areas of my life, like friendships, too.

And it helped that you expressed compassion toward my reaction to your putting off resuming in person. Were you tearing up again at one point? It seemed like it. Around when I said how it felt like just one more thing that had been pushed back and another delay to getting back to normal in some way. It seemed like you felt bad for causing additional frustration/sadness for me around that, even though, as I said, I know you're just trying to be cautious. But it's still a decision of yours that affects me, even if it's based on professional board recommendations.

Love,
LT