A Prickly Pear

I am struggling to day with being bitter and feeling like a prickly pear. It seems like everything I try to do is thrown back in my face or I am left feeling unheard or wrong in the stance I have taken. I wonder how much of this feeling I am actually entitled to or how much I am making it up. Maybe its just that there have been a lot of situations that have all happened around the same time, but still. Am I really on the wrong path? Is there something other's see in me that I don't see in myself that is bad or wrong? There must be cause there are so many people, some of which are supposed to be "family" who think so. Can someone tell me what exactly it is that I am doing wrong?