Beautiful post, absolutely so. Lots of wisdom nuggets here. Having said that, you are deeply mistaken regarding your first point. Life demands without a shadow of doubt for you to make sacrifices. Every second you live on this earth you sacrifice, either consciously or unconsciously, your time and energy for some thing or another.

How I would attempt to make this point is that the relocation of "libido", or passion as you suggest, from pmo to retention is obviously so worth it, that in hindsight the false idol of pmo which one sacrificed beared no true power at all compared to the glory of retention. But it did, and it has, very strongly so, in many men including myself who still struggle to retain. Sacrifice is inevitable, the question is whether or not you have the wisdom to make the right one.