You are doing an incredible job staying positive and strong despite all the nonsense in your life right now. In regard to: "I will send ex another friendly update today on s8 and then put all of his problems out of my mind and continue the job hunting!"- excellent attitude. You cannot control him. Do not go down cheeseless tunnels that will drain you of energy. "I am eyeing a couple of 50k jobs but that one at 70k sure looks sweet! I know I could handle the job too!" - There will be nothing like standing up on your own feet that will push your PMA higher.
UD
The 3 laws of DBing:
1. PMA is critical to DBing.
2. Since drop in WAW's PMA leads to drop in LBS's PMA and vice-versa detachment is critical.
3. Validate to raise WAW's PMA and GAL to raise LBS's.