'Living well is the best revenge' is kind of like 'when you're in touch with your core value, you cannot do wrong'. There is no downside to it. Only good things can come from it.
She said back in February that "It's not that I didn't trust your changes but by the time you decided to change you had already pushed me over the edge. And I did care about you or I wouldn't have put myself through hell for over 15 years trying to make things work."
I wish I hadn't been the way I was. But I know in my heart that I have done everything that I could have done, after the fact, to make things better, including changing. I've become what she'd wanted me to be all along. I did it because it needed to be done, and for no other reason. It sucks that she wouldn't give me a chance.
"Always go straight forward, and if you meet the devil, cut him in two and go between the pieces." - William Sturgis, clipper ship captain, 1830's.