Thanks for all of your responses. I REALLY appreciate the support. And gravyyy, it's helpful to know that someone else has gone through a similar situation.

As for the suggestion to e-mail my T-- she never gave me her e-mail address. I could probably do some googling and find it, but that would feel weird. Because she never offered her e-mail address to me, it sends the message to me that e-mailing is not acceptable or would somehow break the boundaries that she set.

However, I think I will bring this conversation up to my new T when I meet her next week and see what she thinks. Even if I'm not ready to totally open up to new T yet, this is something I should be able to talk to her about and something she would probably have good advice on.

You're right sanangel--- it definitely does feel like there wasn't a sense of closure. I fee like she tried to give me a sense of closure-- and I tried to create one with the card-- but I feel like closure is a process. It doesn't just happen in the last 5 minutes of our last session. It's true that my feeling of "omg I miss T!" is getting less each day, but simply having that response from her of "I acknowledge that I did receive your card. Thank-you. I heard those nice things you said and I appreciated them"-- would make SUCH a difference!!! It's just weird to pour your heart out in a card and not at least get a "thank-you" AFTER the other person reads it-- because, in all other relationships (family, friends, teachers, colleagues) that is the "normal" expectation. Even if someone moves away, the relationship isn't extremely intimate one moment, and completely over forever the next-- you have the option of occassionally checking in with one another. It's just hard for me to understand emotionally (even though I understand mentally) that I don't get to stay in touch with my T and that my T isn't worrying about missing me or never seeing me again.