There is so much great stuff in these posts, everyone. There were a lot of things said by all of you that I will try to comment on later this evening in greater detail.
I love that all of you are aware that there is nothing you can nor should do to convince anyone to change.
I love that even though you have this tremendous weight of these sitches on you, you still are moving forward with your life, learning from your past mistakes, and making life-changing improvements in the present.
You are doing things that make YOU happy. That is what matter right now. Whether our WAS/WS take notice is completely out of our control. The sooner we can accept that, the sooner and faster we can heal.