Whoa a sizzling hawt pic, plus Alanis, and sprinkled with your no BS, straight from the gut writing has got to equal one of the best posts ever TBH. 🙂
Like any communication, "thank you's" can be tricky. Having to fill in the blanks leads to over analyzing and filling in our own take (doubts, fears, anger etc) Especially in the world of text, so much is lost compared to speech. (I know you can "OK Boomer" me lol). However besides all that, I believe we have reached a certain high level of maturity when we can look at a sucky situation and be thankful for life lessons. Gotta make the best of the worst of it.