So i figured id try being the jerk route at first and have now apologized, and i can increase her mood a little but nothing i do seems to improve the sympathy stat which is stuck at -59 or do i need to push the mood over 0.3 because at the minute that's all it seems to allow me 

how do you even check sympathy?

I was looking through the game files, specially the save file, and experimenting with different settings ie increasing money, affection and mood stats ect, and although i could increase the mood and watch it decrease through in game actions, nothing  seemed to effect the affection stat once it was set