fable "The Dog and the Bone"…About a dog carrying a bone across a bridge of water and looks down and see’s his reflection of himself and he thinks it’s another dog carrying a bone and he wants the other dog’s bone too – so he snaps at the other bone, dropping his bone into the water…
Moral of that story – ‘Who all coveteth, oft he loseth all.’ OR Bo wants his cake and to eat it too…He can go on a have a life and a love, but he doesn’t want Hope to go on with her life, (even though she’s the one who instigated the separation/divorce in the first place).