Sometimes before an ill person could get better, they had to get much worse first. Fever helped to kill the virus. Their marriage had been sick for its entire history. Unhealthy people couldn't help but create unhealthy relationships. Maybe that's all they would ever be. Or it was going to be better after they made it through this one hurdle. It was always a possibility that even if he eventually forgave her for lying about the pregnancies she'd willfully terminated that they still wouldn't work. Was one-sided love enough to really make any marriage work?