Pathless
Fiercely Interdependent
Oops that should have been Reginald Perin, not Perry ... silly me
Had to google this guy to find out who he is/was. Sounds like a reasonable man to me:
BBC - Comedy - The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
BBC said:Ultimately he fakes his own death but is reunited with wife Elizabeth when he attends his funeral in disguise and can't resist wooing her all over again.
Reggie returned a year later bent on setting up a new business, "Grot", selling useless goods. It was, of course, a massive success, leaving Reggie trapped back in the rat race.
For the third, less successful series, he abandoned wage-slavery again, this time setting up a commune for his former co-workers.
I don't know about Alex, but I can draw some parallels to my own life there.