I feel eternally sorry for her and the fact that she is making this decision. I had a boyfriend, a boyfriend I was engaged to (yes I know I was too young, but hey, it happened). He did the same kind of shit to me. Extremely verbally abusive and degrading, always making me do things such as the cooking example (he would never eat leftovers so if I cooked something yesterday he wouldn't eat it and would make me cook something new), always did his bills, balanced his check book, took care of his grandma while she was dying cause he couldn't be bothered to, took his mom to and from doctor's appointments,take him lunch at work, generally just be a wonderful girlfriend for shit. She should be careful though, because when I started standing up to him the words became physical action, and that is never a good situation. I don't know why, I just felt like sharing.