"You need to learn to act on and not react to problems." This is not possible in real life scenario. The right time has to come and people around you should be supportive.
For instance in my own life, when I was affected due to my abusive husband, I had no help to turn around. To make things worst, his parents started playing a typical in-law drama without even realising that I was already hurt due to their son and I was infact clinging on to the marriage despite him having left me emotionally alone already.
All that was left to us was just a legal divorce that too after 3 years in our meaningless marriage.