You are really just one mistake or one misunderstanding away from everything you have worked for over the years to suddenly be gone.

I think this is not really true, you can recover from most mistakes here. There are reasonable people here who would plead your case if there is a misunderstanding.

From experience, people that "lost" everything did not lose it because they did one mistake or one misunderstanding. They did a mistake, maybe a misunderstanding, but then doubled down on that mistake and continued to double down each time.