Comment by DoreenMichele

flat-share with a couple

That's not what was going on. She was making separate living arrangements from him and had already moved out of her parental home and was living in a dorm and going to college.

Their choice could have helped push her into living with him as the easy answer in the face of prejudice making other choices harder for her. This could have helped make her into a victim instead of someone who once dated an older man and broke up with him and apparently had a better-than-average early relationship according to the description she has given.