I did say love-hate. Stick around long enough and you'll get the hate.

[He listens to Ryan talk about his family, and he really tries to find some sympathy or even a shred of positive emotion, but he can't. They'll write letters. They'll communicate somehow. They found a way to make it work despite much more dire circumstances. His face just keeps twisting up more and more, and the deep, deep bitterness in his expression is quite obviously at least half unhappiness, as much as he's trying to mask it with anger.]

They're trying. Better than a lot of people can say about theirs around here.