Reply #42: One thing I don't understand... [View All]

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First, let me preface this by saying IN NO WAY am I implying that this abuse was the wife's fault or that she was "asking for it".

But I don't understand how a married woman abused in this fashion didn't leave after the first incident. I could understand if the couple was poor or if the husband threatened her with violence, but this is a white woman, reasonably-well educated (high school at least), with a very prominent and wealthy husband. She could have split for a women's shelter, hired a lawyer with especially sharp fangs and taken this guy to the bank. She could even have charged rape and had him arrested. But she did neither. Although she didn't know that rape could be legally applied to this abuse, she had to know someone would have helped her.