And how do you reconcile that with the risk of spending the rest of your life regretting What Might Have Been? Much of this book is about the decisions we have to make if we are drawn to perfectly decent people who seem incapable of experiencing or sharing happiness, no matter how much others wish to share it with them. But all you get from walking away is a shot at it.
And if doing so *guaranteed* happiness, well, we'd all be doing it. It's the perfect, horrible illustration of how sometimes any chance of survival and happiness depend on walking away from someone with the emotional equivalent of a broken leg. To remain would condemn her and the remainder of the team to death as well. There's a scene in the Disney movie "Eight Below" where a sled dog is shown having to abandon an injured pack member to certain death in a blizzard.
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