Hey Wip
Glad to hear you are forging forward.
I understand your fear about pushing forward with your wife when you have doubts about your being able to meet the challenge. These fears are very real for me also. One thing my wife have talked about is making myself vunerable. Putting myself out there, me risking the pain and frustration. That isn't alwasy easy for me. My wife is an incredible person, and has somehow managed to continue to support me. I have had to take the fear of failing and turn that into a fear of not trying. If i worry that i will fail, i probably will. If I go into it with the intention of succeeding - eventually i will (hopefuly sooner rather than later). Self doubt and self loathing can be ones undoing.
It is a process, it does take time.
Find that strength, better days are coming for all of us.