Nobody "deserves" to be happy. We have to work at it just like everything else.
My perspective is not that CV is unhappy as much as CV is tired and worn out. Burned out is what comes across. By what I don't think we yet know for sure although she does blame her H for the majority of it. I don't live her life, so for all I know that's what wore her out. But I wonder.
I do agree that children know. They watch carefully from the time they are born. They know things you don't think they know. They learn and grow up faster than we think they do.
My son is a good example of that. He knows what's happened. That surprised me. He doesn't like it, but he doesn't fight it either and he knows he can't change it. But he knows and he lets me know from time to time, indirectly.
CV is strong. I have no doubt of that. And Regretful you may be right she doesn't feel she deserves to be happy. I don't know about that, but it is plausible.
Peace, AJ
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter" MLK Put the glass down... "Yesterday I was clever so I wanted to change the world Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."