That is exactly the opposite of what I think is the true response in real life, so wonder if I should respect the show for taking it in a different path, or if my disappointment is warranted. Up until that point, I thought the Gabrielle storyline was kept true to life, at least as it relates to friends I had in college that came as au pairs and were taught how to report abuse to the organization, so that they could decide if it required a criminal report, because some things are just a matter of culture and not considered abusive and for those, they wanted to create a safe place for a mediation. Taking of a passport was considered a no-no and taught as such. I thought it was clear all season that the abuse was from Claire not self-inflicted, but some comments here made me think that I needed to give some benefit of the doubt to the storyline.
I was dense. It never occurred to me it wasn't self-inflicted.