Uh, could be that good ol' heaping of guilt? For leaving? I don't know. If this is the thing that keeps popping up for you...

[Sally's no therapist, but she's gonna guess that it weighs down on him a lot. Not that it doesn't suck. Having shit thrown at you like this, stuff you couldn't control but still have to deal with? She knows what that's like.]

What I'm saying is, some shit you just have to accept has happened.