Tough love

Often, when I've dug a really deep hole for myself, and I know I've screwed myself over to the point where I couldn't undo it if I tried, I'm more than a little ambivalent when things work out alright anyway. And, as happy and relieved as my immediate reaction might be, part of me is disappointed in -- maybe even a little resentful of -- the person who made an exception and cut me way more slack than I deserve, because they've robbed me of the hard lesson I should have learned from my own behaviour.