I generally stick to the idea that - like stocks - every relationship requires personal investment. You spend time, effort, attention, perhaps a little bit of money, and that allows the relationship to blossom.
It hurts when an investment doesn't pan out, especially a significantly big investment. Even more so if the payoff you expected was important to you. And yet even more when that same payoff was almost reached and then cruelly taken away at the last possible moment.
Of course you will try to protect your investment, reduce risk, provide more incentives. Sometimes it helps, but like the DOW, there really are no guarantees. Results in the past, do not in any way predict anything about the future.
Comparing friendships and relationships to stock symbols is far fetched, but the comparison rings true. Does it help? Does it make you feel better? Unlikely. It helps to deal with human emotion by taking the emotion out of the equation, and being all business-like. Question is, would you want to?
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