Hey there thanks for the comment. Yes it really does fuck with everything. Yeah i had a recovery email linked with my primary email. But with steemit you can only recover your steemit account on the email you signed up under.
With gmail i basically was not going to get access to said email regardless of a backup email unless i had my phone number because i had set that up as part of the two step verification.
So in theory i could've regained access to my email with only the secondary backup email but since i had set it up "extra secure" with Also the phone number that changed things.
Hope that makes some sense.