Thank you everybody for all the wonderful support, ever since I first came here!
Mallowcup, I really am looking forward to decorating. The very first thing I'm going to do after closing is to go rip up carpeting and see how the floors look underneath. The movers will bring my stuff in the following day, and my parents will come down to help me organize and set things up.
There really is no good way to break up with somebody, but Mallow is right that I should think about what *didn't* happen. He wasn't alone when he got the news, he didn't have an opportunity to dive deep into the bottle and harm me or himself or anything in the house, and he didn't have to watch me leave. And he won't have to watch me move on with my life!
On another positive note, I had asked him not to call me, and so far he hasn't. He gets back from Florida sometime today, and if he continues to not call me, so much the better.