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I can't get over the LW's feeling that his wife's body somehow belongs to him. He gets to control what happens to it, to check up on it, to confront her if it's not working to his satisfaction.
As another poster said, that was exactly the attitude of Andrea Yates' husband. She had serious post-partum depression; they were told another pregnancy would destroy her mind; and he refused to use condoms or give up sex. They had another child, and she took the children's lives.
I'm troubled that the wife in this case would even marry a man who's apparently unsympathetic to her anxiety and depression, but I don't mean to blame her.
I hope she gets out right away. This kind of controlling "I'm right, and I'll make sure you know it" man is not healthy for women, children, or other living things.
