Just because someone is in their late twenties doesn’t mean they automatically suddenly get unbrainwashed and are able to heal all trauma out of nowhere. She’s basically completely isolated and has no one to turn to. She’s the same as she was all those years ago. It’s unfortunate but sometimes that happens. Sometimes ppl are that isolated and fall through the cracks. She’s been denied education and made a de facto maid and caregiver. There is literally no one for her, she has no friends. How do you expect her to get out of there, out of that perspective, out of the only thing she’s ever known, the only sense of stability she has had within one year of meeting a dude? You have to tread lightly with victims who are deeply attached to their abusers. They don’t think those ppl are their abusers, they hinge all their trust and sense of self in them because they trust them so deeply. You can’t simply tell them that they’re abusers, they won’t believe you, it’d be attacking someone precious to them and that perspective shift is impossible to happen so fast. It takes so much patience and care, honestly Brown should have said whatever nice nonsense he had to about that hag to get her out of there and once they leave she’d have been free.
That's not how relationships work. A relationship is a 2 way thing. Brown is not Dora's psychiatrist or care-taker. Dora was never going to leave. It's good that he got away without getting dragged around for too long.
Every abuse victim doesn't have access to a psychiatrist, how do you think these ppl get out of these situations? How do you think ppl got out of these situations before psychiatrists were even a thing? It is with the help, the patience, empathy, and compassion of regular ppl around them. I’m not saying it’s an easy task or fair on the ppl who take it up, but sometimes ppl inconvenience themselves for the sake of others and that’s not bad or wrong.
While what Jack did was bad I was glad it saved Brown. Dora is messed up. Just as the aunt is overly possessive and manipulative Dora is obsessive and self sabotaging. I can still understand her resenting a much younger Jack as a 13 year old when he first came to the house. But to not get over it and feel that way in her late 20s shows a twisted character. I'm glad Brown escaped. The 3 crazies belong together and they can mess each other's life up all they want.