"It's easier to sacrifice a child than your life (marriage, family, circle of friends, community status, church, mostly your whole frame of reality). Besides, if you tell the kid they're exaggerating, being overly emotional or 'don't understand what he's trying to do', you'll start to believe it yourself."
With that one brief statement, you have efficiently synopsized my life.
Thank you....:)
The one thing I learned is that monsters trive in the silence and blessings of cowards.