[She nods quietly in agreement. She is still mad, clearly, but she also thought she'd forgiven him. Maybe that simply wasn't true when faced with it all over again.]

You mean when I turned it off?

[She'd been angry about her Mom too, but she'd been angrier at herself than anyone else. Maybe that's what had made it so much harder, at least in part.]

It would be easier, sure, but I know myself. I couldn't live like that forever, and then it'd only make things worse. It doesn't really help, not in the long run. I just...I couldn't do it right then. I couldn't deal with it.