I love this post and can totally relate to it. I am not as fortunate to have circumnavigated the rejections quite yet but know in my heart my day in the sun will come. My main criticism comes from the place you most need support from, your partner. Never having even read my work it was instantly disregarded as a waste of time. With age comes obstinacy and having alwats been a determined person I may have consigned my efforts to a plastic storage box, for a few years, now it is back amongst the living and I will not allow myself to be dictated to again. What I have learnt is that rejection seems to be like a red flag to a bull, to me. Looking forward to publishing for myself for at least one project just to get it out there I write daily even if it is only my posts on Facebook and twitter.  

Choose when to read any rejections, have a moment of uncertainty and 'wound licking' then move on. No one said it would be easy and if you are a writer it is an addiction, something you can't help but do. I will have the last laugh.