No matter how hard I try, I just can't make myself understand evil people. I don't understand what motivates them, and how they think they can get away with their behavior forever. I don't understand how they intend to hide it forever. By pointing the finger at other people? Won't the people they associate with eventually see through all of that venom? Then again, some of them have done it for so many years that they truly have perfected their craft of lying.

Mike keeps telling me that I need to stop and read M. Scott Peck’s People of the Lie, and maybe he’s right. I don’t know how that will help practically, but it can hardly be more depressing than the reality of the evil that I am living with.

But, why? Why do some parents treat their children this way and others don’t? What twists them, and why are they so blind to the harm they do? Is it that the first people they lie to are themselves? How do they still avoid seeing the truth when it’s smack dab in front of them?

I just don’t get it. But it’s wrong, and it doesn’t matter how much venom they spew at me, I won’t stop fighting for what my daughter wants because their behavior has me more convinced than ever before that her instincts, and mine, are correct. I'm not going to let her down, no matter what else they pull. My family let me down time and time again and I will not ever betray or abandon her as they have done me.