What happens when you make the easier, softer, more caring choice to give them another chance, and this one after the other seventeen changes over the last few months or years?

They’ll thank you for it, you’ll feel good about being thanked and for helping someone who’s obviously struggling.

Everyone else, including you, will continue picking up the pieces and dealing with new problems as the person finds their way or, more likely, continues to disappoint.

In the mean time, no replacement, no permanent fix.

Which means when the time comes and you can no longer tolerate the easier, softer, more caring choice, you have to accept more issues for longer as the process finally kicks into gear.

And whilst you let things slide, everyone notices and you teach them ever-so-slightly to let their things slide too.

Skippy strategy: It’s not easier to let things slide.