First, I want to iterate that I don't *actually* act like a toddler, it's indicative of the reaction I have.

Roadie, I like your handle on semantics!

Everybody else, you guys focused on the email...not really the point, but okay. I'm glad your T's allow you to email. I have a feeling she has given me her personal email address. Whether that's true or not, I think she's a compulsive email checker. I'm as OCD as they come, but I don't check my work email on the weekend! I think the email thing with her at this juncture is related more to teaching me boundaries than anything else. She desperately seems to want me to have them in my life...and admittedly, where I have set them, it's working for me so far!

BJ, I think you hit the nail on the head. Our T's are teaching us the skills our parents did not without becoming an actual surrogate parent themselves. I think my T is just maternal in nature, and when it comes down to it, I don't want to replace my own mom! I love HER!