Very well said. Being here and listening to other site owners is helpful, refreshing and definitely encouraging. You're correct; we are not in competition with each other. But I see how more people here think so, or at least act like it. It appears that people guard their site URLs like gold.

Expensive? Yeah, running a site even on the bare-bones side is financially taxing. And family may not see the vision you do and want you to "stop wasting money." But we all have reached the Point of No Return and blown right through it. If I give up now, all the time and money is wasted, and I will wonder for the rest of my life if it would have worked if I just gave it a little more time.

So, what do we do? We believe in ourselves, and we believe in our sites, and we keep pressing on.