I think that we could all copy/paste what you're saying about our lives and those of the WS/WASs. Mine does not stand a change with her current support system.
This is a wake up call, better now than never. It hurts like hell, but at least we're not in hell with them.
In a year or two, we will look back and hopefully be able to see how it all fit together to get us where we're going.
Just cos things are going right, doesn't mean that they were always wrong.