“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”
― Alan Watts
This is why I get angry at the "Joe was such a nice guy, what did he ever do to her?" people. It doesn't take much reading between the lines here to see that she always felt like she had to walk on eggshells because of him. He made her feel small.