Ping---the best advice I can give you is this---sometimes when you're fishing and you hook a big one and you attempt to horse that big fish in-the line breaks, the hook gets pulled out, or something bad happens and you lose that big fish. You have her hooked---do not horse her in. Play that big fish nice and easy and get her in the net. Take your time.
I like your analogy on this Mike. I wish I knew this a 6 weeks ago when I first moved to the rental house I'm in, things started out so great with us but I had to ruin it because I got my hopes up to much. Believe me, I will learn from that experience and your fishing analogy is right on target with what needs to be done.