^ for me, the difference was this: hundreds of times I had said and prayed about "I can't stay with this". The difference for me was when I said "I'm not going to stay with this ". Not one more second.
Dandy-thank you for the caterpillar analogy. Exactly. When the sheer pain and fear of leaving outweighs the pain and fear of staying,
Important stuff, WTBH! Yes, I feel our paths are extremely parallel