Deployed Soldier/Father needs your help

[MichelleLT]

It really was never your job to make her happy. You can't control her, including her emotions. You can't MAKE her happy. Only she can do that. Only she ever could.

The hormones of a new R make everything better for a while.

It's a drug, just like alcohol or nicotine. As are $h!tty coping mechanisms for the unhappiness, just like any other addiction. They are a way to bury the problem in the temporary euphoria another fix brings.