h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Catholic parents? Traditionalist, dominant male figures important, head-of-household. Thought the house would make her happy, but in the end made it worse. Sterility, fear of ocean mean weakness: resentment, disdain. Feels trapped in a life that is far from what she expected. She knows the feelings are "wrong," so she suppresses them, tries to be happy, holds on to what she can, the ocean and the rain and baking, but she fades. Sickly? She struggles with her suppressed emotions, but suppressing them makes them stronger, they manifest separate from her.

He knows she is unhappy, but knows he can't do anything about it. Tries what he can, but nothing helps. He grows distant, shuts himself away when he's home. Tries to buy her flowers and little things, but doesn't talk to her or really try to reach her anymore. He feels her suppressed disdain, it makes him angry because these things aren't his fault. Feels trapped by the house, trapped into being what he is, and withdraws. He just doesn't know what to do.

Rename one of them to disconnect the stories in your mind. They started as the same character, but they're not anymore. As long as you view them as the same, you're stuck. The name should help.

Why does Be hate herself? She made him kill her, he did it, but she orchestrated it. Why did she choose him to be the engine? Because he loves her, but she doesn't love herself, and she feels that she doesn't deserve it, she extroverts her self-loathing.