That particular situation was a bad case of DV. She was married off to this brute when she was 18 and 5 years of continuous physical, emotional, financial, immigration, and sexual abuse. Married her from some small village in India and brought her to Canada. She could barely speak proper Hindi let alone English and was totally isolated. Neighbors rang the cops as they heard her cry for three hours straight and cops brought her to shelter. It took years of therapy to help her. I am not sure what happened to her but I hope she is doing well.
You are right choice also means you want to exercise that choice - and I think if you believe in it then doesn’t matter what anyone else says or does. I guess some unfortunate can’t and some won’t.
Oh man. Hmmm I too hope she is doing well.