"Why don't you just keep picking the meat off my dead carcass?"
Oh dear, Liz. I actually laughed out loud at that.
And I'm SO happy to hear how calm, balanced, happy you sound. It's been a long road for you to get to this point, and I feel... honored, actually, to have gotten to follow along as you worked your way to YOUR solution and YOUR happy ending, YOUR way.
You pretty much rock. Hard.