I'm caught up and I too can sense your frustration, but I have to agree w/ FG on several of his items.
Unfortunately, the thing you want the most - romance, etc. - will most likely come last. Remember it took a long time to get to this point and undoing it correctly will equally take a long time.
The question is "do you have the patience for it?" If the answer is yes, then keep doing the MC and the IC b/c he is moving - like a corpse, but moving, none-the-less. Only you can decide this one and you will.
Finally, you've stated again the question about "settling" and the answer is no f*ck!ng way! NOPE! Not an option. No one goes through the amount of pain you've been through (and all of us here on this board have gone through) to settle. So, try and put that thought to bed for good. Settling shouldn't be an option.
So, now the question comes back to will you be willing to wait this thing out and see it to its conclusion? If you are, then steel yourself for a long, cold winter, b/c it will take time to fix this puppy.
