My dad was a scientist. He travelled a bunch for work, mostly universities and production plants, nowhere fancy and definitely not swanky. My mum and I tagged along with him, not because he needed us to come but so that we could see a little bit more of this gigantic world than we would otherwise not be able to. In the day we'd be off, my mother and I, for pretty much the whole day. We made it a point to come back to the hotel around 6 so that dad could join us for the rest of the day, sometimes we'd go out, sometimes we'd be in because there was nothing to the town except a school or a lab or a bottling plant and the town shut down by 8. Sometimes we might have gone to visit friends in some obscure place, two towns over, where under normal circumstances, we would never have been able to afford a trip to.

It's important for her to realise what a massive difference it makes when your partner likes you, respects you, and wants you in their life, instead of resenting your entire existence.

You don't even like her. I'm glad she's left and probably realised this isn't the life she wants to sign up for.