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In reply to the discussion: Marriage tips from a rapist, on ABC [View all]He couldn't have had issues with depression and alcohol because the person he cared about was put in jail for loving him? It had to be because he was raped? Despite the fact that they have gone back to each other at every opportunity?
I get the ick factor. I really do and it makes me uncomfortable thinking about their relationship at the time but that is my own personal and of course most of societies belief systems and they have no bearing whatsoever on this kids state of mind about his relationship.
And again had he at any point walked away I would probably feel much differently about it but he hasn't 6 years of her in prison and all he did was wait for the moment she was released to be with her again. I just can't wrap my head around calling that rape despite our normal restrictions on such behavior.
I don't think the is anything wrong with society shunning this sort of relationship as 99.9% of the time I think they will end up badly. This one however seems to have been a case of two people who found something in each other and have stuck with it despite society as a whole scorning them for it.
Technically under the law it was rape to be sure but in reality it doesn't look like it was anything close to it.