It's Hard on the Man

Richard has just lost his wife, who, in dying, took great care to instruct him to keep their newborn child far away from her estranged family. On top of that, one of his wife's best friends seems to have harboured feelings for him for a long time and he now seems to be falling for her - or is it the way that the grief has messed him up?
His life is in a mess and he just wants it all to work out. He knows that he's the only one with the power, but it takes strength that he isn't sure he has at the moment...