Thank you, and you are right with this observation:
"you didn't talk about the feelings of helplessness that the man experiences after the end of the first scenario - which i think maybe contributes to the man walking away. - feeling ineffectual and associating that with their M."
and also I felt unsuccessful...I put quite a bit of weight on W's happiness as a measure of my personal success...maybe it was more so because she has suffered from depression throughout and before our M...so if W was happy, then T2 was successful, no matter what happened at work, etc.
T^2
In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. - Albert Camus
Uncertainty is the very condition which impels people to unfold their powers.-Eric Fromm
