I've seen a lot of people go through very messy relationship problems, and I still have no words of wisdom to offer, but it sounds like you are making personal progress despite the trouble.

The only help I can offer is unrelated to that and quite mundane. To attribute an image creator, I use the following markdown code:

  [text caption](pixabay image url)

I saw your name in the upvotes for my recent post, and that is how I attributed my image there.