I think it may punish them. I think it's possible that dynamic eroded your marriage, and is infecting your kids with a tendency to misdirect their feelings.
When 9,000,000 men are employed out of 10,000,000 willing and able to work, there is no evidence that the labour of these 9,000,000 men is misdirected.
More to the point will it be to mention that Viviette's letter to Cambridge had been returned long before he reached that place, while her missive to Marseilles was, of course, misdirected altogether.
I'm here to keep you company while you fall asleep, to take your mind off of stuff, to distract you just barely, a little bit of a misdirect from whatever's keeping you awake to me.
I think there's growing realization in Washington, that the Ukraine war is a little bit of a misdirect, and that we need to basically get back to doing what we were doing before the war, which is pivoting to Asia.