[garv]

When you say "husband" are you referring to the guy who was living with another woman and had fathered several children?

[highball]

You may not like him as a human being, but he still had the legal right and moral obligation to determine the course of her treatment.

He was still her husband, and he remained her guardian. If he was thought to be compromised in that role, there should have been a challenge to his guardianship. The Schindlers, to the contrary, approved of his dating and encouraged him to date - that is, until he differed with them on his wife's treatment.