Coly, IT DOES GET BETTER! I promise you this. It took me a loooooong time to get where I am today and it's not easy, but I honestly do have a better life than before BD. Just have to do the work and be honest with yourself and live a life of integrity. There's so much BS surrounding divorce.
Sometimes when people first visit here, they look for success stories and ask for examples. Of course they mean reconciliation. But if there is one thing I have learned over my time here, success can be mean so many different things. I think you are a great example of a success story Pax... what a transformation you have gone through! Congrats to you!
Good luck with the dating, sounds like you are enjoying it. Be picky, you deserve it. Some guy is going to be very lucky!