WAW on rebound, toxic inlaws, mental health issues

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So I had my session with Joann this morning and it was rather interesting. First of all she was shocked to hear from me because we didn't expect any communication coming from W, but it did!

Her professional analysis of the email is that my W obviously cares about me (if she did not she wouldn't have sent it). She is still convinced that what she is doing is right, and she is still angry so we need to defuse that.

We went through the email line by line several times and constructed a response to counter it.
The response is written in a warm, caring and understanding way so that she feels listened to.

Other than that she recommend to:
- continue to be patient, go slow
- continue LRT (because it seems to be working)
- don't tell her what to do
- don't tell her to change her mind
- listen to what she writes and appreciate her comments
- take 100% responsibility for what went wrong

So I have fired off the email and will continue to GAL until something (hopefully) comes back..