Wish I could express how I felt reading your passage - I've felt many of those emotions. I couldn't hope to understand, though, how it must feel having children in that situation, and after eight years. I don't know what else to say except there is always someone in a worse situation, and although that isn't always comforting, I think many of us have had to remind ourselves of that fact many times. I know that there've been times that I felt like it was all I had, as ridiculous as that sounds. Maybe some positive will come out of it all, though - things like this serve as reminders of what's really important to us.

I sincerely wish you the best. We're only human.