I’m not a psychologist, and perhaps the use of “sociopath” was hyperbole. And I can imagine the (to my mind) sad situation of being surrounded only by relationships so shallow that no one would suffer much distress if you just picked up and moved, but it definitely looked like that was not the case here, and I would like to think that it’s not the caae for most married couples with children. I’m not saying that the sunk cost fallacy doesn’t come into play when a couple is considering divorce (I suspect it’s very strong), but I think that even in most divorces there are emotional (and other) repercussions that should be looked at as results of your choices rather than as artifacts of cognitive bias.
I’m not a psychologist, and perhaps the use of “sociopath” was hyperbole. And I can imagine the (to my mind) sad situation of being surrounded only by relationships so shallow that no one would suffer much distress if you just picked up and moved, but it definitely looked like that was not the case here, and I would like to think that it’s not the caae for most married couples with children. I’m not saying that the sunk cost fallacy doesn’t come into play when a couple is considering divorce (I suspect it’s very strong), but I think that even in most divorces there are emotional (and other) repercussions that should be looked at as results of your choices rather than as artifacts of cognitive bias.