This is so typical of the kind of faux-precious nonsense they say. Obviously they need personal time, we know that, we are not idiots. You know what I do when I want personal time? I don't check my emails. It's no different for therapists. The pretentiousness they perpetuate about the importance of their boundaries (as if they are any different to any other profession) infuriates me.

My therapist has never talked about protecting her family or time, but she has told me that she sometimes dreads my emails or indeed dreads sessions with me. It was acutely painfully at the time, but now I swing into an attitude of "whatever, I dread contact with you sometimes so we are a match made in mutually dreadful heaven".