Oh, I know - no offence taken or anything. And you're right to be honest; it's easy to paint a binary picture of success or failure but in reality life's not like that. Me and the missus, as happy as we are together (to the best of my knowledge, anyway), are not without our issues, just like any...
True story. I failed both my Business and Geography A-levels, largely due to the fact that I went out the night before the exams to get pissed up and ended up taking so much ecstasy I shit the bed trainspotting style and urinated all over my poor mate who happened to be sleeping on my bedroom...