One of the most difficult and humbling things we face as human beings is to gain victory in the arena of career, whilst failing in the area of relationships. In other words to win and succeed in one area of life at the expense of another area of life. I have succeeded in my own mind, and yet have failed in the mind of someone whom I love. Someone who’s opinion I value immensely. There have been times when I feel like I have done something really great work, and yet my beautiful wife has a great talent of dragging my head down from ‘its lofty and prideful cloud’, and back to earth. It is with simple, yet loving correction she teaches and shows me how much work there is yet to do. It seems to be just at that moment when I expect praise for “all that I had done”, instead I feel unappreciated, and deflated. Whatever the negative feeling is, the natural part of me associates these negative feelings to my wife and replay the scene over and over in the mind. With constant replaying it leads to resentment or upset. The unfulfilled expectation was that I wanted her to be grateful for…