Letters to the Editor
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Letters, we get letters
Cary, I actually wrote you a letter and had just those second thoughts. It's difficult to have a real question and really desire the input of the "masses" (instead of the vacuum of silence because you can't confide in your friends) and to express it without revealing particulars of one's situation so that it's transparent to anyone close to it.
I, too, asked you not to publish - a day after sending the letter - because I hadn't couched the situation well enough to disguise it or the players.
Sometimes in writing the question down, in expressing it and then having to re-read it a couple of times, we see the answer coded there. "Short Hubby"'s LW surely realized after reading her letter back a couple of times, and sleeping on it, just how it sounded. Maybe she doesn't even feel the way she sounded in that letter. Maybe listening to herself brought forth a flood of love and affection for her husband and she realized what a treasure he is.
Who knows? I'm not sure there's a way to avoid publishing letters from LWs who later have second thoughts, but I'm glad mine was not printed, and I can see why this LW had her second thoughts.