It's always such a shame when an interesting premise gets ruined by an unfitting writing style. 
And it really pains me to say this but this was definitely the case here. 

It had so many things going for it:

There was a lot of internal monologues, like a lot, a LOT which wouldn't have been that bad if they didn't keep using the same arguments over and over again without coming to a new conclusion. It was always something along the lines of: "Am I doing the right thing? 🤷 I am doing it for my family though."