That's an excellent analogy, and well written. However, the same sort of thing could be said about the MLCer. Because of damage done to him as a child/teen, his own house is built under a tree with an inadequate root system. It is inevitable that some storm is going to send that tree crashing down on his house, however fine his house may look. The crash is inevitable; it's only a matter of the perfect storm coming along to cause it. And in the end it will be worthwhile for him to rebuild his personal house, because he will do so in conditions which will allow it to thrive, and truly allow it to be the fine house it only looked like before. This time it will be built properly, with no damaged tree looming over it.
However you wish to express it, the MLCer has a time bomb in him that must explode at some point. And it's only after having dealt with his personal crisis that he will be able to start healing his marriage.
