OOOHHHHHHHH! THWACK!!! Why did I not see that before?! How on earth could I have possibly missed that?
Thank you, Meat, thank you SO MUCH. It never, ever, ever occured to me to see something from someone else's point of view, to see my own flaws, and my own poor reasoning.
And now that I've had my little pity party of one, I can go now and become the better person I know I can be, just by changing MY flaws.