51 years ago, my friend married a woman who has essentially ruined his life.
She targeted him because he lacked the will to challenge her.
He married her. Two children were not planned. They are adults now. The children have married poor choices of spouses. The children have had children. One set is living in abject poverty and neglect. The other set is plain ignored by their parents. One child is looking at an impending divorce with plans to marry another woman ASAP. The other child has cancer and is siphoning the dwindling retirement funds of my friend due to improvident investments.
My friend's wife is dominant in the relationship and that's despite her being confined to a wheelchair, losing her teeth, and nearly blind with cataracts. Since the advent of their "marriage", she has literally screamed at him, berated him, debased him. And made sure his children with her disrespected him. (His son recently stated he expected his parents to be gone soon.)
He gave up a chance to leave a bad marriage early on and start over, but lacked the will to leave, especially after the children came.
His life is a misery and he followed the "Success Sequence".
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