That makes a lot of sense, thanks.

Also, in the dream, the timelines were all weird (as happens in dreams), and ex-MC died a week after his wife (him, which was right around Christmas, actually). And I really feel my reaction to that (like, how I reacted to him, how he wasn't going to tell us, etc.) sort of started the downfall of our relationship, even though the big rupture didn't happen till nearly a year later. But maybe I'm reading too much into it...