Thank you for taking the time to post at this exciting time in your life. Mazel tov to you, and thank you for your beautiful words. May your chasuna be b’shah tova, with much happiness that will last your whole life long.
If I may, i would like to suggest a peice of advice that you can, either, totally ignore, or keep in you drawer.
Although you are engaged and will IY”H get married, please don’t take the nisyonos of these past few years, and just try to block the difficulties and depressing memories out of your head. Hopefully you have matured (as is witness to this beautiful thread), polished your middos, and grew strong from it. Down the road, others may come your way that are in a difficult, perhaps similar situation you have been in, and they’ll cry how they are at the verge of giving up. Thats when your dating years will come in as a positive ‘theropeutic’ remedy. You can use them as an effective ‘tool’ to sympathize, hear them out, and encourage them because you can RELATE to their pain. You know of their tzar better than others, because you’ve been down that road! You can be more sensitive than others. You can be more sympathetic than others. And IY”H be mechazek others with your lesson of never giving up hope for a yeshuah.