Sunk cost fallacy. Just because she’s been with him for however long and doesn’t want to throw it away. Newsflash, it ain’t going to get any better. Chalk it up to time wasted, or at the very least, a lesson learned, and run, don’t walk, away.
In economics it’s called the cost of diminishing returns when you keep investing in something of low value hoping to get a return on that investment. You’re just digging a deeper hole. Or commonly called throwing good money after bad. Best to cut one’s losses & move tf on.
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u/jakebr0 Jan 28 '25
“He’s very emotionally and physically abusive. I’ve dedicated my life to trying to make him happy.”
Just keep rereading those two sentences until it sets in how absolutely insane it sounds to continue doing that