emotional investment

Would you take your money and invest it in a bank that for the past 3 and a half years had been tearing up and setting fire to your money in front of you?

Of course you bloody wouldn't. What an obscenely foolish thing to do.

So why would you do the same with your emotions?

He puts his daughter on a pedestal like she is some kind of prize. For the past 3 and a half years she has been (and continues to be) unutterably cruel to both of us, has tried to screw up our relationships with his sons, and has made no attempt whatsoever to be a sister to her little half brother.

What a sick waste it would be to keep watching your own money burn.

Your emotional energy is a precious resource that keeps your relationships in the black.

So invest your emotional energies in someone who deserves it, like your 3 sons, or ME. Stop throwing them on the fire, you bloody fool, while the rest of us grow cold because we can't afford to put the heating on.