“Gil wasn’t the best husband in the world, but I knew what to expect. If I left, I didn’t know what my future would look like. It’s…it’s hard to explain.” Better the devil you know, and all that. It was a powerful kind of logic that kept people mired in bad situations. The strangest part was that while it stemmed from a place of fear, there was also a pinch of common sense in that logic. Probably because we all understood that even rock bottom had a subfloor.
