Blue Valentine. An adult conversation

You're not going to eat that?

Why don't you do something?

What do you mean?

I don't know.

What does that mean?

What did I do something?

I don't know, isn't there something you wanted to do?

Like what?

I don't know.

You're so good at so many things, you could do anything you wanted to do, you're good at everything that you do, isn't there something else you want to do?

Then what, to be your husband, to be Frankie's dad?

What do you want me to do, what in your like dream scenario of me like doing what I'm good at, what would that be?

I don't know, I just mean you're so good at so many things, you can do so many things, you have such capacity.

For what?

I don't know, you can sing, you can draw, you can dance.

Listen.

I didn't want to be somebody's husband, okay, and I didn't want to be somebody's dad, that wasn't my goal in life, some guys it is, wasn't mine.

But somehow I've, it was what I wanted, I didn't know that.

And it's all I want to do, I don't want to do anything else, that's what I want to do.

I work so I can do that.

I'd like to see you have a job where you don't have to start drinking at 8:00 in the morning to go to work.

No, I have a job that I can drink at 8:00 in the morning, what a luxury, you know?

I get up for work, I have a beer, I go to work, I paint somebody's house, they're excited about it, I come home, I get to be with you.

What's like, this is the dream.

It doesn't ever disappoint you?

Why, why would it disappoint me?

I can still do whatever I could do.

Because you have such potential.

So what, why do you have to fucking make money off your potential?

Look, I'm not even saying you have to make money off your potential.

What does potential mean?

What does that mean?

Potential.

Potential for what?

To turn it into what?

We rarely sit down and have an adult conversation because every time we do,

you take what I say and you turn it around into something that I didn't mean.

You just,

twist it.

Start blabbing, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

If you're not interested in what I have to say, then maybe I just shouldn't say anything.

Hmm.