"I'm sorry." That kind of pain isn't something anyone should have to go through. It changes people, carves them out. Leaves a person-shaped hole behind that never quite fills back in. No matter how hard you try.

"I lost my fiance." He says it quietly, and not that he owes it to Lydia, but-- sometimes just knowing another person has been there helps. Like it dispels some of the resentment and guilt. You become a member of a really depressing club instead of just a single person, left alone.