Brandon thought that maybe he should say something - maybe something comforting - but he didn't know what to say. Nothing good ever came out of marriage. Marriage was a lot of fighting with each other and dishing out pent-up anger and dealing with kids you never wanted and a mortgage you couldn't afford to pay back.
"If you're not happy then it's for the better," was all Brandon ended up saying. Not quite comforting, no, but it was the truth the way he saw it.