[Oh, he's going to be unhappy with her... oh well.]
Things were... traumatic for us all. There are plenty of things we don't want to remember, yet we deal with them all the time.
And for him, he wasn't surrounded by people who remembered. I was. I... can't imagine how hard it was for him to try and appear as though everything was all right. But at the same time, he didn't have to face it quite as badly as I did.