Catch the latest, cherish the timeless
In Eddie's introductory chapter, it's mentioned that he tried to move out three times before it stuck. I think about it all the time. He was so dependent on his mom by the time that he was an adult that he couldn't function without her, and when she died, he turned around and married someone who would fulfill that same role. Or rather, he perpetuated his own misuse of medicine and married someone who enabled him to do it. In the book, Eddie had a moment where he thought he could be fine and break out of the cycle of abuse, but he determined that familiarity was easier than taking those steps- so he proposed to and married Myra instead. Eddie's story is so tragic because a part of him very much recognized what he was doing and did it anyways.