My Failure
And that is the most painful part, knowing it is my failure. She knows I am not the individual who abandoned her. But she is angry at him and by her own admission taking her anger out on me. By her own admission she knows I don't deserve it. She refuses to go to counselling to try to find a way to redirect this anger away from me. She acknowledged that this meant she was making a choice to deliberately hurt someone she admits doesn't deserve it...
And that is the most painful part, knowing that her lack of rational ethics is my failure in her raising. Her moral compass is so skewed that she can do this to anyone without her conscience intervening. It is just heartbreaking because it was my duty as a parent to calibrate that compass. How badly must I have failed for her to be able to self-justify her actions on a fellow human being?