Wow, that e-mail is exactly what I'm expecting to get from my soon to be XAH. Unbelievable, as I read it I was feeling what I'd feel and it was guilt. Manipulation and desperation were mentioned in 2 of the posts above. Dam they're good.
You just keep on replaying in your head the way it was. I don't know about you but I've heard the words in that e-mail many times before and it is manipulation. It's just very sad that we've all heard it before and as someone else said they must have an e-mail book (written for alcoholics) that they pull this stuff from. They should just make it a form letter.
By the way, that quack, quack duck has helped me so much. I used to give my husband "the look" everytime he was drunk and now I don't even notice he's in the room.