And it's so true. It looks like you and I really did have similar experiences.
I also just thought that things would take care of themselves. I never thought to seek the help I needed/we needed before the separation.
And yeah, there's a lot of letting go. I think that the biggest thing I learned here was to let go. You never know. And there's a lot of time ahead of us. The only thing we can do is just work on ourselves.