Playing Pretend

"Sometimes it's easier to pretend things are okay rather than face a difficult truth. So we go through the motions, the rituals of everyday life. We hope the comfortable rhythms of familiarity will hold off the inevitable for a little while longer. Return things to normal. Anything to buy us more time. Playing pretend. Make-believe. It may be the one thing we never outgrow." 

--Everwood, season 2