What happened between me and Madame T since I quit has not been "pretty", nor has it been orthodox. You can, indeed, say that I was trying to "do therapy by mail".

But she was the second most important person in my life for nearly ten years, and you can't turn that off like a tap.

Also, it is noticeable that she made not the slightest complaint about my writing. She could have asked me not to write, she could have asked for payment, she could have refused to write back. So if I have been doing therapy by mail, it was with her full cooperation.