Aw, fantastic!
I'm glad I was able to inspire any bit of passion for drawing with my own art. You're truly sharing it with the one you love, and that's enough for anybody in my book. It's undeniably a joy to be able to bring your thoughts and ideas to paper and idealize them in the real world for people to see and enjoy. Based on what I've seen, I doubt that what you're drawing now hardly qualifies as 'crap;' as a sucker for the cute and cuddly, I've enjoyed a lot of your drawings. You've undoubtedly improved past what I could do in that regard.
It's good to hear you're happy doing what you do now. You've impacted me just as much in simply writing a note, and I couldn't tell you what that means to me. I never thought my work would inspire anybody. As for me, I wouldn't worry. Life is... Life I suppose. I'll be fine. I'm just some person on the internet after all.
I bid you adieu, and remember!
Always, keep on drawin'.