Dude, you're brilliant. Seriously, this is not a fake comment to an NH kid. You really are brilliant.

So I am assuming you are realizing that your wife's negative comments and rejection over the years have made all those taped messages in your mind and you are having to do a lot of work to do the tape-overs. Is that where you are headed?

Again, brilliant.

And yes we should treat ourselves and our spouses with the same tenderness and compassion that misguided youth are treated! We all deserve that compassion and help.

I am sorry if you have already said this elsewhere, but what do you do exactly? (Just curiousity, don't have to answer if it is too personal).

DQ