I received an email from head office of my employer. I've won a "team of the year" award and I'm invited to receive the award at the head office and meet the CEO.

This is not only a breath of fresh air to have some success after feeling like a failure for so long, it looks very good on my career as I've been discussing my career path with my boss to help me move to the next level, take new projects.

So of course as soon as I feel like a champ, I read the final line telling me I can invite a guest...BLECH! It frustrated me. First because I remembered that I no longer have a person to bring...and then even more because it's on a Thursday and I've known for years that should I ever make the error of getting hit by a bus on a Zumba night, she'll schedule the funeral on her night off.

So I'm going alone. It's her loss. Not that she'll feel any sense of loss, I don't recall her caring much about me....specifically, caring much about anything not related directly to her.

Resentment occurs when we aren't doing what we need to care for ourselves, though we expect others to do it for us.