My W said same, TDF, she was worried I would be bitter, mean, say things to the kids about her. That I would hate her forever more.

She knows me, and knows how I could be when I detest someone.

I think that, and the fear of losing her "buddy system", her mr fixit.

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. - Albert Camus

Uncertainty is the very condition which impels people to unfold their powers.-Eric Fromm