Complicated Separation
When they met, Liz was already separated from her ex-husband and lived in her own place, but James didn’t. As a matter of fact, he was going through the most intense phase of his divorce.
And it wasn’t pretty to see: his wife, now ex-wife, begged and pleaded with him not to go. She was just desperate to have him back; she had been using all sorts of nasty tactics and mind games, emotional blackmail, and whatnot. And for a minute, James was on the fence about it.