She is in the early stages of an abusive relationship with someone who is at least behaving exactly like a narcissist. He is lovebombing her every time she makes up her mind to leave in between the bouts of abuse and disrespect. That’s what the romantic hotel night is for and that’s what motivated him to do that dance, it just didn’t work. Intermittent reinforcement makes our happy “in love” hormones skyrocket way more than consistent positive relationships and actually make us addicted to those hormones and the abusive partner who causes them by contrasting increasingly abusive behavior with increasingly rare bouts of lovebombing.
I wonder if his lies about expectations would be enough to get a marriage annulled in the US. It certainly should be. I have no idea how difficult it is to end a marriage in India, but I’m assuming it’s harder to split up in a culture seems to revere marriage a great deal more than ours does.