It started when she was about sixteen, and ended around the time she was twenty-one.
She married him while she was pregnant with their second child; she was nineteen when she had my eldest niece in 1983, and gave birth to the second in 1985, and I think the divorce went down in 1986. (It has been a while, so dates might not be perfect.)
I did not witness any "fear of further escalating" -- she was not a "timid" person. From the outside looking in (and keep in mind I was two years younger than she was) the biggest thing between them seemed to be the illegal drugs. He later died of an overdose; I am grateful she wasn't with him, but oddly enough, when we found out about his death years later, instead of blaming HIM for doing the drugs, she blamed his death on the people he was with....
Did I mention the fact my family has some serious dysfunctional issues? 
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