That happened to me six years ago. After a few weeks I quit beating my head against the wall, created an email account elsewhere, and eventually got most corre

That happened to me six years ago. After a few weeks I quit beating my head against the wall, created an email account elsewhere, and eventually got most correspondents to use the new address. And I quit using Google services for anything else, too. Every year or so I'll check to see if I can log in, but it just loops around variations of "two-factor authentication", which I had never used, and therefore have no answer to.