John shook his head. He really, really didn't want to go into it, but sometimes with Sherlock you had to just explain, no matter how awkward it was.

"No. Sherlock, listen. I appreciate-- you know I appreciate what you did, what you do. Or at least, I hope you know. But what you have to understand is that when we met, I'd been in therapy for a while, and if I hadn't had someone who forced me to talk when I really, really didn't want to, we never would have met at all. I would never have left that awful bedsit. Do you understand?"