-A few times I really got her attention when i said that i did certain things wrong, and how her criticisms allowed me to really look at, and analyze some of my own mannerisms, and I could see how they could be annoying looking at it from "outside" and that i had co-workers who do those things, and it can annoy me. She did say it was important that I have been admitting when I was wrong and she did notice a change in many of my habitual mannerisms (and yes, these are things I wanted to/chose to work on changing, so they are not just to win her back).
In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. - Albert Camus
Uncertainty is the very condition which impels people to unfold their powers.-Eric Fromm