I've often thought that Tim is our Yoda and we are all his fledgling Jedi HD knights.
My wife is a dud, too. I don't want to tell her this, because I know it will not result in anything other than more anger, more resentment, more fights, and, of course, more "dud-ness." So I "act as if" she's not a dud.
When she asks if I am "disappointed in her" (which she never would ask, probably), I would say no, but that I'm disappointed in my situation.
Hairdog - young padawan. Young, and wreckless is he. Like his father.