Mornin', Lee,
I was a LTB&H investor with no exit strategy from 1985 to 2000, so I know that of which you speak first hand. That, and realizing one's broker is NOT one's friend (I was a very naive investor, and would that I had awoken just a tad sooner), are what drove me to trading, and VOILA!, a new and lucrative vocation!
Sometimes what we see as a disaster in our lives, turns out to be the best thing that could possibly have happened. It was certainly so in my case. God moves in mysterious ways . . .
Newly
P.S. One of the advantages (perhaps the only advantage?) of growing older is the capacity to look back over the years and see God moving in one's life.