...If they had someone in mind when all this happened -- when they decided to reach for people who could help with this -- it must have been you.

[But she has a way of not making him envious. Somehow, when she says things like that, they don't irritate him the way other people's do. Maybe because she puts it as a choice, or maybe because she's straightforward and there's no nonsense about 'living' or 'just adjusting'.]

[Something to think about.]