You really should have ended the conv. with the comment about bettering myself. The rest got you nowhere you wanted to be, she knows you want to fix the R/M and there is nothing you can SAY that will change her mind.
Me:40 W: 39 T: 17 years M: 15 years S-9 D-6 D final 11/10/2009
"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."