That was his fault too, really. Tara's exhaustion and sadness had come about from his own accident.

"I can always take it back after this. Never gotta talk about it again, you don't want to," he said. It was painful to suggest but maybe he wasn't going to be the man she married and maybe there were parts of her that were so very far gone that she was unrecognizable to him.

"It's your choice."