Long therapy breaks can be hard. I tend to have some difficulty in feeling attached and immense difficulty in expressing attachment. Sometimes a long break is when I feel most in touch with those feelings, though, and email is (I find) the least threatening medium for expressing those kinds of feelings. I think it is a nice thing that you did.

I know what you mean about the email response deciding everything. The first time I expressed attachment was by email and I felt the same way. He responded well. Kindly. Took a while... But he did. If he hadn't have done that then I'm sure I would have well and truely packed those feelings away and never expressed them again! I'm sure she will respond well, with the tenderness and kindness you deserve. Even though (I'm sure you know) that lots of people really are bad with how often they check their emails!

You hang in there... I think it was a lovely thing to do and that it will improve your relationship with your therapist :-)