We learned here that we can't make other people happy. We can only be happy with ourselves.
Some people don't want to be that way. We choose to be or we wounldn't be here. I think that's why we came here. So we could find that happiness within ourselves when the pain and unhappiness hit us.
That's the lesson I learned from divorce busting. We had to have the GAL and other learned techniques pounded into us. Your X, like mine, like so many, didn't wish to be happy. We could never make them be so. They're sad really.
But I no longer wish to be part of their sad ways.