For some reason it felt like a very German book to me (Possibly because it reminded me of Agnes and Homo Faber that we had to read for school.) A man and an somewhat unreachable woman that brings out a bunch of problems and emotional baggage that the man wasn't properly processing because he is a man (and woman are emotional blabla).

I did like the last third of the book with the main character realizing the mistakes he made with raising his kids and in his marriage. But the whole thing with the painting? And the other two men (the painter and the CEO)? What was the point?