My therapist has some stupid, convoluted system about responding to my emails-- sometimes he does and sometimes he doesn't, lol. He came up with this ridiculous idea that if I want him to respond to an email to leave him a message telling him I wanted to respond. I was like, "Ummm, how does that help? It only adds in an unecessary point of contact." Sometimes he doesn't respond at all to my emails and we just talk about them in session. Sometimes he responds very briefly: "I got your email and just wanted to let you know I'm still here for you. Always will be." Stuff like that. I use the email as more of an oulet because I can express myself in a completely different way when writing-- we agreed that there would be no lengthy responses from him because email can misconstrue a lot of stuff... however, a simple, "I got your email" is always nice. I hate being at that middle point, thinking, "Did he even get it? If he did, what does he think? Can't he even let me know that he got and we'll talk about it later??"