Steve Carell had a way of making the sadness of the situation that was infidelity funny, his comedian chops lending humor to the comedy portion of the romantic comedy. Of course, for there to be infidelity, there had to something to betray in the first place. From her consumption of media, she's picked up on the different opinions on physical infidelity versus emotional infidelity.
"What do you think is worse?" she asked Tom, gesturing at the screen. "Cheating on someone by having sex with someone else or having an emotional affair?"
"The 'what ifs' of life," said Yelena, nodding when Tom talked about all the ways his life could have been different if he'd had a 'normal' upbringing. Yelena couldn't help but wonder that for herself, too. If she had actually grown up as the girl living with her parents and older sister in Ohio. "The recent dreams people were having seemed to have to do with that. I guess that might be the closest some people ever get to having some idea how things could have gone differently."