I don't want to hurt you feelings because I know you love your horse and you want him to love you. Your horse needs tough love. He has been spoiled and somewhere has learned or was never taught to respect a human's space. To watch someone work with your horse will probably be a difficult and you might think it mean. Even harder is that you will have to learn and apply those lessons yourself as well. Learning to handle a horse on the ground so that he can respect you and in turn trust you is just as, and maybe more important then handling them when you are on their back. Books have been written and all the clinitions have their ways that can be seen on their CDs and DVDs. Study away but hands on with someone's guidance is needed. Anybody worth their salt should be willing to teach you some and maybe even free. I'm probably not much help. If I were closer...

Dave