A bit of advice if I may... A few years ago (maybe more than a few, I'm getting older), I had a disagreement with my wife when in the heat of the moment I made a statement that we would not be where we were without me, and that it was ALL down to ME. On the face of it, it looked true. I came from nothing as a kid, I suffered homelessness before my teens, and all sorts of other crappy stuff that I don't need to go in to, lets just say I overcame quite a lot of stuff time and time again and worked my way up from poor guy from a council estate, to a successful award winning entrepreneur. Sounds good, but the journey was long, and hard, and didn't have that many good times in it, and success is all relative.
I met my wife when I was 17 and she 16, I was serving in the Army. We had nothing when we met. When leaving the Army I cared for my father for 5 years, I started selling insurance door to door, then got a job with a big corporate telco, I worked my way up and started working with start-ups, I made some money, and I lost it all, then made some more, and lost it. Eventually I started my own internet company from nothing and built it in to a multi million pound company which I broke up and sold.
Sorry for the back-story but I thought it right to set the scene. You see at the end of that particular journey was when we had the disagreement. I had been busy thinking for years that I was alone in all my hard work, that I did it all, I got us the big house and the nice cars and the great new life (that wasn't that great as I was an ass) and I protected my family when finances were dire and I was struggling to make payroll. I then realised that along the whole journey I had my wife by my side the whole way, the I's turned to We's and I realised that WE had done it together. Without my wife I never would be where I am now, and WE would not be where we are now. From that realisation came more, I began to realise that its all about the journey and not the destination, and I had missed so much of our journey together as I was full speed ahead trying to get "there" (wherever that is). So on your journey, do you want to be alone, or do you want your wife and family along with you?