Sorry, perhaps my wording was misleading. I don't have much to elaborate on. As far as I know, Linder went abroad for a while after the split of Ludus in 1983 (obviously the same year that the Smiths were signed), and in her absence Morrissey moved to London to be closer to Rough Trade. They didn't fall out but lost contact for a while, and certainly by the later Smiths years ('86, '87) she was back in his life and helping him pick up the pieces. After the Smiths split he listed Linder, James Maker, and Pete Burns as his only friends, and again in 1990 - Linder and Debbie Dannell. I think when The Smiths were formed, Morrissey put everything else in his life on the back burner, and focused completely on the music. He lost contact with Maker for a much longer time, and didn't reconcile until the 'comeback', when he used his label Attack Records to release some of James' material.