The whole situation was ridiculous. What kind of idiot asks the woman he still loves for advice on the (other) woman he’s with?

Jim supposed that, (not quite as) deep down (as he’d like to think), he was hoping she’d tell him that he was right. That he shouldn’t be encouraging another woman. That he shouldn’t even *have* another woman.

That she loved him. Wanted him. Needed him. That it was all a terrible mistake. A big misunder…standing.

Misunderstanding. After all, that’s what got him into this mess, isn’t it? An unforgiving avalanche of misunderstandings.

Karen was…easy to understand.