This is a process. All you can do is surrender to the process and work each step. The way I see it if you (general you, not you per say) don't do that now it will bubble up at some other point in your life.
The packing of the things was an odd experience for me. In a way I felt very sad but in a way I felt very purged and sort of "cleaned out".
I do think it is *very* positive your H went with a smaller firm instead of one of the big guns you anticipated he would hire. Mellow is the name of the game now.
Find beauty in today. We won't ever get another May 4, 2010 EVER so might as well make the most of it