Also, check into Retrouvaille classes in your area. There are many in piecing who have been and swear by what they learned from them--Some posters I can think of right away are Dr. Love, whatdidido, Sara, BobbiJo, and recently, techguy went this weekend.
Not that I hadn't given it a little bit of thought prior to forcibly inserting myself into the piecing world but by prayers and prayers alone maybe this is a step that I would greatly benefit me and my darling. It is all a crap shoot ..IDK. I am somewhere between furious and anxious and raucous and uncertain and petrified (that would explain the sloth state when it comes to getting "important" things started and God forbid completed