Severed the ties.

Idris looked at his wife and then smiled, shaking his head. "I don't think you are going to get it any sooner, Catrin. But definitely one day, you will get it. I just hope when that day comes, your regret doesn't cross the limits that's hard to bear." he loved his wife, and if given a choice, he would take all her sufferings. But at the same time, he knew not all the pains can be shared. There are a few that had to be carried alone. 

Catrin felt the weight of his words, and it unsettled her. "Idris, do you really believe that our daughter will stay happy with such a man who can't even offer her with what she had grown up with? Did you not see, she didn't even bring a car. She walked all her way here and —"