I broke up with a long-term girlfriend about two years ago. Last week, while totally drunk, I thought that it would be a great idea to see whether I could still log into her e-mail account, since we told each other our usernames and passwords way back when. (Yes, I know that I’m going straight to hell for this.) But that’s not the problem. Her e-mails revealed that she’s been in an emotionally abusive relationship for about a year. Her boyfriend, in his e-mails, tells her that her family is crazy, that her friends are worthless and should be cut out of her life, that she’ll never do better than him. He insults and swears at her. Whenever she protests, he backs off, tells her that he’ll commit suicide if she leaves him, and begs her forgiveness. Then he goes back to his old ways a few days later.
She...