[Cole436]

Hey CP

This is a bit of a heavy topic and I'm hoping that I can get some advice.

A good friend of mine divorced and remarried this past year to an American and they've moved to the states to start their marriage. We've been very close for years and I had a lot of red flags about this man she married since nearly the beginning of their relationship. He's a 10+ year veteran and seems to suffer from severe PTSD and she had told me many times before she moved to the states that he was manipulative and emotionally volatile. Despite a lot of concerns she went ahead anyways.

Her personality has drastically shifted in the last few months to become very defensive, righteous, and very much in line with the views I knew her husband had. An incident happened in the past few days over social media (in one of the calmest and most polite political discussions I've ever seen) where it became very apparent that he is attempting to alienate her from her friends in Canada. At one point he stated "She has become something better" now that she's with him. She was told by him that her Canadian friends were talking down to her because she's an eastern European immigrant, and only he has her back.

I can't get into too many more details due to privacy, but our group of friends is fairly certain that there is some pretty serious emotional and verbal abuse that's happening. And it makes it very hard to deal with when she's thousands of miles away from any of her friends and family.

I don't know if anyone has experience with this issue, but anything would be helpful.