Dear R,

It really means a lot that you said you'd be there for me and could be my T, at least for a while, if something happened to Dr. T or if he moved to Canada or something. I thought you'd really be hedging, like, "Well, it would depend on what was going on in my job then" or a nonanswer with "I doubt you'll have to deal with that." But you gave me what I needed, and it seemed genuine. So, thank you for that.

You also gave me lots of good things to think about in our two sessions--as usually happens with you! Though I imagine maybe that's partly because I don't see you that often, so your insights seem fresh and new to me. And I'm glad you're so understanding about my attachment to Dr. T, even though, as I said today, "Yeah, I know he doesn't seem like the sort of person one would get attached to!" You did smile at that.

Love (and I think you'd be OK with my feeling that),

LT