Is It Possible for Her to Interpret That as a Cry for Help?

"I thought you had a gem of a question that you turned into like a stone," he says to his wife. "How could she talk to me in a way that i would then see as valuable? Tif, that's the question you were asking, is't that?" He asks himself: 'Is it possible for her to interpret that as a cry for help?' And if so, how do we get into this fight in the first place?