My good friend Laura (hello, buddy!) recently sent me an e-mail with, I think, a really good message. She said:

I'm proud of you for struggling through this time and you'll come out a better person for it. God uses these times to make us more like Himself.

"3Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us." Romans 5:3-5.
 
To me, that's comforting.
 
-- Christy