I congratulate you because you made a good decision.
Your mother is an intelligent woman, she is one of mine, hehe. Life is full of decisions, it is what we call free will. Very often we choose wrong. Then we have to pay the consequences of those decisions, we call it bad luck.
Sometimes you learn, the hard way, to make good decisions. The important thing is that in the end you have learned it, that is a lesson for your entire life.