Btw, this happens with plenty of women who thought they could do better than their husband.
There are plenty of unhappy married women who divorced their husband because they didn't like his bad habits. Only to find out that the available men who take interest in them have worse habits or aren't serious about building a life with them. These men will move in with them and keep their company, but they don't plan to actually invest in the relationship in a way that meets her expectations. These women get strung along for years, hoping he'll change or marry her, and so they accept his breadcrumbs because they don't have better options. They figure that as long as they can get him to perform some house chores then that is better than nothing. By the time they know it, they are too old and the dude has moved on to marry a younger woman who can have his babies. She was just a placeholder all along.
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