Because somehow, in some real but ridiculous way, life had led him to believe that your spouse was supposed to be able to heal you, to find the hurts in you and root them out, and if they didn’t do that for you, that was just cruelty on their part. That if they couldn’t make you feel better, that meant they didn’t really love you, that they didn’t want you to feel better. He’d made his hurt into Kate’s problem.
