You've found peace and good people who share your values, so that's most important. It's sad that others didn't stick with you the way they should have.

As someone who lived abroad for several years myself, I experienced a minor version of this in that people back home didn't seem to care about my experiences after a while. What I experienced was beyond their reference points. I eventually ended up moving back within a day's drive of where I grew up, but was able to return on my own terms.

To some extent, I think people are afraid that you have broken free and followed your own personal journey in a way that many of them cannot appreciate.