I think the easiest solution is actually to get busy. Find something you enjoy doing, preferably away from the house. Something that you will continue to do. I think when we just get started and think about GAL, we consider things to do that aren't really who we are or even what we want to do because we want to make an impression that we are moving. What we all really need is to actually do the things we want to do and actually "move on". Those things will ring true to your X, but the purpose is to make you happier and more fulfilled, not influence her.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. Theodore Roosevelt