Jacqueline Elliott tells her husband Andy that the family learned to live without him because he's emotionally absent, despite being physically there. She says his work comes first, and money can't replace his presence. The conversation breaks him.
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One of the biggest and hardest things that I ever had to tell Andy. It was the hardest conversation that we had and the most painful thing that completely destroyed him more than anything has ever destroyed him in the world. I told him that we learned to live without him. We love you. You're in the pictures. You show up. You're not present. You're not here. You're at home, and you're thinking about work and the fear of missing out. I told him that, and he completely lost it. And he was like, I can't believe this. I can't believe you would say that. He defensive. I work so hard to give you everything you want. What is it that we have? We have a house. We have cars. We have this. But we lost you. I can tell you. Your spouse, you can give her everything. If she loses you, nothing matters. She'll give it all up to have nothing again. As long as she can have you back. Sometimes we're so stupid we don't realize that.