I agree. Obviously I didn't put my point across the way I intended if that's what's coming through. What I was trying to say if boiled down is: Nick being a retard and refusing to make hard choices about his baseline stress, particularly relating to his wife's status in the home and the kids activities is part of what ground him down and alongside the hundred other problems the shithead has (arrogance, narcissism, manipulative tendencies, a lack of accountability etc) made him vulnerable to his own worst impulses.