You are 100% correct about patience. It can be tough to want something to happen and to have to wait for it....whatever it is: the big D, reconcilication, or continued piecing back together of a relationship. Keep up the good work until that new found competence with patience creates more new habits around how you look at and experiencing things. For me, developing the level of patience I now have thanks to starting DBing 4-5 years ago feels so rewarding. It also helped to pick up a copy of MWD's Change Your Life and Everyone In it and actively work to practice the ideas in that book (still centered around how you can only control changes you make to yourself and THAT can lead others to change in response to the new/different you (much like you seem to be doing)! All the best, MrP.