It's good you are accentuating the positives. It is a period we can use for individual growth and it seems as though your IC is helping you with that. It's better than time wasted on bitter sadness and misery. Some never move on in a healthy manner, they keep it bottled up and let it affect them longer than it should. You are making the best of accepting it for what it is and making the best out of it for yourself and kids.
"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare." -Mark Twain