"You don't think it's going to be difficult, until you have to try it, until you have to put others through pain just to stop them from seeing you suffer; it's not nice, but you do it. It's like this big relentless wave that you have to ride, but in riding it, you hold on to what you've got left". Connie has to face something harder than she's ever done before, she wants to tell Jacob but she doesn't want his pity, she wants to live her life like any other woman, but as her problems start to show, can she accept the fact that she can't cope on her own?