At least this story has a happy ending.

This man dodged a bullet. Some additional thoughts.

1. Abuse is defined as anything and everything that makes a woman unhappy.
2. Just because a woman is sweating you to get married, doesn’t mean she wants to be your wife.  Very few men understand this.  You have to carefully test to see if she really wants to be your wife, and even this isn’t perfect.
3. She was willing to try anything, anything, to fix their relationship.  Anything except for being sweet and loving to the man she wanted to marry.
4. Somewhere out there is the man desperate enough to marry Lauren.  He isn’t, however, a man with good options.