She did not live with him for that year, unless he lived in the separate apartment she had while she was a university student, which I doubt since he’s supposedly so religious that he couldn’t sleep in bed with her in his family’s house until they were married. And he pretended to be more “western”, lying to her when she asked him about being expected to be a traditional conservative wife.
She can’t start a business there because she’s not eligible to work there yet.
Her father and stepmother both thought she was being treated badly, her stepmother even said it during one of the pre-wedding ceremonies and her dad wanted her to postpone the wedding and go back with them to the US.
She did help plan the apartment in detail and picked out materials while she was there, by constructing started AFTER she was came back in the US when her student visa expired and she had to get a different visa to return to India and get married.
TJ and his family are trash.
They’d been in a romantic relationship for 2 years before the wedding.