Be careful wishing away seasons you may eventually wish you could revisit.

Difficult seasons often contain things you cannot see from inside them, and you find out only later what was also true of those years. Wanting a hard stretch to end is entirely reasonable. Wishing the whole period away is a different thing, and it tends to take some good with it.

Without pretending a hard time is fine, look for the one element you would want to keep. A closeness, a simplicity, a version of yourself. Notice it now so that it is not only visible in hindsight.