My Pride + Other people putting foot in mouth = ...

I like to think that, for a girl, I'm reasonably tough-skinned and it takes a great deal to offend me or hurt my feelings, but every now and again a silly thing gets through even my defenses. However, I will admit that I tend to be sensitive and a wee bit insecure about my creative processes. I may have mentioned before that I write book reviews and let my boyfriend read them. Usually I enjoy it, sometimes I have to really wrack my brain to find something worth writing. Anyhow, last week I finished a book that I was very excited about and I didn't really want to write too many details for fear I would give away the plot. I left it out for the guy to read and went about my business. A couple hours later he came to me with the review in hand and simply said "This is poorly written." At first I was shocked. Poorly written? What did he mean? The shock quickly turned into anger. How dare he tell me something that I wrote was poorly written? I don't see him writing reviews on every single book he reads. Who does he think he is that he can judge me that way? It's not as though I'm going to get the reviews published, and he's the only one who reads them anyway. What a prick. I'm proud to say that I managed to swallow my indignation and replied "That's not very nice. My feelings are hurt." I won't bore you with the details, but we made up of course. He apologized for hurting my feelings and promised to word things more delicately in the future, and I insisted on re-writing the review because I knew that the ugly feeling of self-loathing (something I did was "poorly written") would not go away until I fixed the issue. Yet another part of my perfectionist nature, I suppose. So we made up and things are good once more. I'm so glad we aren't one of those couples who yell at each other, and instead talk things out in a reasoning manner. Anyway, that's my rant for today. See you next time.