Here's the thing: Your excitement for your new life has to be genuine. She'll know if your just trying to impress her, and that will make you look pitiful.
While I understand that you don't want to fight the D, that doesn't mean you have to do the leg work or speed things along. In my mind, the more time that passes before the D is final, the greater the chance she will have a change of heart... especially if you play your cards right.
M: A really long time. Crisis: 5 years. She's still worth it.
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose. -Viktor Frankl
