Do you ever sign your emails to T "love"?

My T sometimes puts "with love and best wishes".

Not the word "love" but both she and I (she started it) sometimes put the heart emoji at the end of texts

Yeah, both ways, but i think whenever the word love is used, its because im trying to connect with that emotional space, and i think he gets that. Its not so much about him and me personally. Hes just the conduit, the facilitator.

Really ? Wow.

As your words state, it was merely a discussion. Sounds like your T may have had a boundary type discussion on what they find appropriate and why. Sounds mature and adult to have such discussion. If your abbreviated name/nickname isn't what is used during a session.

I don't text nor email my therapist, no reason to. Love, not certain that's the right word for me, with many things. I value my therapists presence in my life. I cannot possibly feel love for someone, i don't truly know.

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Hazelgirl, this sounds exactly like me and my T except for the fact I have told my T I love her. But she didn't say it back. Everything you said about your's is the same with mine. It's always how she says things a certain and through her actions is all what tells me that she loves and cares about me.

Yes, occasionally, usually when he is away. He knows I am in love with him organically. He has revered commented on this. So I continue to say it once in a while. It's not disrespectful, It's the truth. Guess accepts it.

It's nice to know you are loved and cared about without them having to say it.

Thank you for all the replies. My T has told me that she cares about me very much, but she only says " I love you" to family and close friends. Like you said, Hazel, I also know by my T's actions how much she cares.

Somehow, writing "love" and then your name doesn't seem as intimate as saying " I love you." It's more casual.
I don't want to say the words to her or even have her say them to me. I just want to sign my emails "love, rainbow."

No because awkwardness

I have signed emails full of gratitude with, "Love, PeeJay"

I know my T cannot and will never reciprocate. That's ok.

I doubt that saying "love" makes my T uncomfortable, but if it did, that's her problem. lol.

To Madame T, always.
To Mr T, never.

Yes I do quite often (a variation of it, like loving hug, love you, etc.). She sometimes does write things such as loving hug and occasionally within in the body writes i love and care about you. We also say I love you aloud - me more often (as in maybe once/month), but her increasingly more often. She said that she tends not to say I love you except to her immediate family, but this has changed some as our relationship/connection has grown. I appreciate hearing this from her. It is stating the obvious as in we do love each other, but sometimes when I'm struggling it helps to hear it. I want to add that we talked a lot about saying/writing i love you when I started doing it and we continue to check in about it so that we both are comfortable and talk about what it means. So it's not something uttered casually or without reflection/discussion.

Half the time, I don't even sign the email. She knows who it's coming from, I don't need to put my name at the end. If I do sign it, then it's just "Thanks, Rhi" or even just Thanks with no name.

I rarely sign emails unless I'm corresponding with someone new, needing to add contact info at the end, or needing to emphasize my professional role. Casual email with people I know - just depends on my mood as to whether I sign at all or not.