Soleik – the author has taken a lot of basic values and twisted them around to work for her own cause.
What makes you think she’s not doing the same thing about her personal story to play on our emotions to make us all feel guilty for her leaving?
As a side note, you deal with victims of abuse. Would it make sense for a victim of an attempted rape to throw caution to the wind and seriously flirt… (and end in serious problems)? I would think they would try to protect themselves as much as possible and try not to attract unwanted attention. Think Elizabeth Smart.
I hope this made sense and I am trying to stay away from too many details.