I've been getting verbally beat down from all sides for weeks now, and I keep trying to understand where I've gone wrong so I can fix myself. Is that not at least synonymous with dedication?

Its tough to be sure. Were you ever in the military? I ask because I went off to basic the month after HS. I hated it at first. How dare these dumb -a$$es yell at me etc...
After a few weeks it dawned on me "oh, that's why we do it that way. Now I get it!" Not too long after that, I found myself inside an M-1 Abrams over in the Sandbox. Every single thing that I resisted during endless weeks of training came back to save my life and lives of my crew on several occassions.

Not too many places around where you can get such good advice for free. If this stuff makes you defensive or provocative, thats good because that means its working and you are starting to recognize what does not work for YOU or your W.


Me: 44
Bomb: 11/27/11
Divorced:6/12
Life goes on: 6/13


Dogs still like bacon...a lot.