When is kindness enough?

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Today I realized I can sometimes see the positive side of things.
My wife was supposed to leave me last June, after the kids finished school, and move on with her life who knows where.
Due to my DBing starting January 2015 we reconciled briefly in June.
This made the W decide to stay abroad another year with me. At work she asked for one more year of leave.
In the meantime she decided to move on with the divorce, but at least I will be close to my kids one more year because she is staying abroad.
Had I not done DB I would not have gained this one year.
So instead of thinking that my efforts failed I realize something good happened because of them.
How great is this?
And I realized this while being bombarded with nuclear subatomic particles (just kidding, I was just doing a cat scan which showed I do not have the hernia I thought I had).