It sounds like you did the best you could in a difficult situation. That's all any of us can do. It sounds like it did give you some emotional freedom and release and gave you some space to grow. But hiding under the new name as it seems you feel you're doing seems to have run its course, yes? So now you come back having traveled through your dark journey, going through the refiner's fire, so to speak, and you are a better man for it. I don't think anyone's going to judge you negatively for it in any way.

Just good to see you again.