Is this a "message" or is it a realistic view of a character who was married for 30 years to a man she recently found is gay. The implications of that can be quite unsettling. I'm sure the questions "How could I not have known?", "Did he ever love me?", "Was I just a beard?", "Is my whole life fictitious?", are just some of the questions going through Laureen's head. And that would be bad enough, but to add that the ex-husband already has a partner and moved on, and is finally happy and living his truth must kill. Having a self-involved daughter surely doesn't help. Laureen probably married her husband while she was in college or shortly after college. An empty house can be sad. It's likely she has never lived alone. Everybody's moving on; the ex, Hannah's pregnant, the only one in stasis is Laureen. In my view, she's not angry enough!
Off topic and totally shallow, but Shosh looked darling in that dress!