That's encouraging to hear, Wonka. Thanks for posting. It helps partly because I realize that (because I am allowing myself to date right now) part of the caution of being "on the rebound" is thinking that anything is better than nothing. Which it isn't.
I had another relevant dream last night. I've had plenty of wish-fulfillment dreams in the past, but my dreams these days are clearly not interested in lying to me.
In this dream, I encountered STBX and OM walking down the street somewhere. I approached OM and screamed at him all the things that I wanted to say, and cowed him to the ground. And the result of this was to make STBX take his side, scorn me for my petulance and immaturity, and walk away disdainfully.