Rosa, I am not grateful for his MLC as that caused a great deal of pain. I am grateful for my journey, though. I am grateful that I was able to look inside and deal with all my stuff. I am grateful that I have become who I know I was meant to be. Do I wish I could have done all that without going through all of this? Absolutely. But that is not how He wanted it to happen.

I do like to see that you wrote that there were things about you that were bad. You do not have a bad bone in your body.  And you did the best you could with the knowledge and tools you had. You are so hard on yourself, my Rosa. You love him deeply, you had his back, you took care of him.

I am so glad that you feel better, my friend. You will get through this. Trust in Him and yourself. You can never go wrong if you do.

You are on your way, RL. I am here rooting you on!