The husband must file a divorce
People don’t need empathy, if the person wants to be more empathic, I think it showcases the person and shows how they could understand someone’s feeling especially in a cyber world of 2021 where almost everyone is either dying or killing them selves in other vices, if more people develop these feeling they can make the people around them feel better and see that more emotions need to be felt than just assumptions and judging someone at first glance. People could bring emotions back into an online society of text and lol’s in which everyone is a walking robot. In the short answer none of anything matters and everyone will die, so all these feelings are useless unless people and society want to care about others and start treating people more kindly and more respectful manner than a cut throat be kill or die trying attitude.
The wife in "The Wife's Lament" thinks her husband is A. suffering great sadness.
He was forced to leave her and the town he was living in, although it is not explained why this is the case. His wife is devastated, and believes that he is in great pain because he had to abandon her. This is why she wants to go and find him, in order to be with him again.