Yes, that makes sense Callaway- that's the kind of thing I would do. The most extreme example I can think of is this: A couple of years ago I became friends with a woman who lives a couple of streets away from us- she's a single mum with 3 kids and has a lot of problems with them. I would look after her kids for her whenever she asked (even if I was really too busy to) , let them stay at our house to eat all the time, lend her money (even when we really couldn't afford it), etc. Her eldest son was always in trouble- he was only 10 but he was a very violent boy and whenever he got into trouble she would never punish him because she said it wasn't his fault. For too long I kept trying to help, even taking one of her kids in for the night when she'd forgotten about him, locked him out and passed out drunk on the living room floor. In the end I had to cut off contact with the whole family because he was hitting my kids, he throw a rock through our window and threatened me with a big kitchen knife.