it came off as a guy who couldn't get a date in high school, eating up the fact that he had an audience but that's about all he could handle -- that and he wasn't interested in anyone but his wife. Like I said, that's how he came off in the film which, no doubt, was pretty contrived.
Arash:
Very contrived considering they divorced a year or two after the film come out. Maybe they sincerely had just grown apart or some such, but at the time this pretty much confirmed my view that whole loving husband shtick that he went on and on about in interviews was just a cheap marketing ploy to broaden his appeal to a larger audience.