That's exactly what the other shrink said.

Britten

Britten: To her he's not still alive. Hearing about it, talking about it wasn't comforting it was torture.
Lee: Just as you continue to imagine a life with him your wife is coping by beginning to imagine a life without him.

For me, the room upstairs isn't empty.

Britten

The thing is doctor, yes, I still my wife and my son, and I've also watched both of them lowered into the ground. And when you a loved one buried you have one thought over and over again that you would do anything, anything to get them back. So if you're telling me that the price of seeing them, feeling them, of having them in my life is my sanity that's a price I will happily pay.

Britten

Trust me, when it comes to letting one of them go I have no desire to ever make progress.

Britten

Hannah: Are you gonna see him tonight?
Britten: Yeah.
Hannah: Tell him I love him.
Britten: I will.

Awake Season 1 Episode 1 Quotes

Trust me, when it comes to letting one of them go I have no desire to ever make progress.

Britten

Hannah: Are you gonna see him tonight?
Britten: Yeah.
Hannah: Tell him I love him.
Britten: I will.