Yes you should, but keep it short and full of validations.
"W,
I understand how you have gotten to this point and I want to thank you for being as patient as you have been with me. I understand your feelings of wanting a D and always wanted for you to just be happy. I do understand that you have done "the work" and I was just too stubborn to realize that, etc."
Start off with something like that.
M-43 W-40 2D - 9 and 5
Emotion, yet peace. Ignorance, yet knowledge. Passion, yet serenity. Chaos, yet harmony. Death, yet a new life.