She may not realize it, but things now are a lot worse than when she was with Nader. No normal person would be in this situation and feel serene. I don't know if this is just delusion or copium that is making her feel that way.
1) She was financially separate from Nader. When she bought him electronics or paid his bills, it was of her own crazy volition. There's no doubt this is some kind of arrangement where she HAS to pay for his shit or he has direct control of her finances.
2) She was living in her own house. Though I know Salah is not contributing >1%, she can't exactly kick him out either. She's too stupid to "live" alone while waiting for a plane ticket home. I don't expect her to be able to shop, go to the hospital or the Canadian embassy alone, especially if he has her money.
3) She is completely isolated. No Peetz, no pre-'21 Shannon, no Smee, no Uncle Syphilis... She has nobody to turn to in case of crisis or mental stress. She has even less of a social outlet than before. At the very least she interacted with Peetz and seldom with her family. She is now entirely dependent on internet weirdos for socialization, as I feel Salah is
much different when the camera is turned off.
4) Her health is in a worse state and there's no Canadian Medicare to rely on. She has to get her drugs through a third-party and has to pay out of pocket for any medical stuff. Much like her being a "resident" is bullshit, so might be her embellishments about Kuwaiti healthcare. I can't imagine someone like her is gonna go through the system for a few nickels, while on a tourist visa.
5) She didn't have to worry about her residence in Canada. Now she is virtually non-existent there. A tourist cosplaying as a resident, thinking she can become a citizen, when her husband of convenience never got that privilege. She's having to do visa runs now which can't be good for her health.
6) If Salah abused her (for whatever reason), she has much less recourse. She wouldn't be taken as seriously as a in Canada (white canadian attacked by an arab). ME people look at this way differently and the language barrier will probably come into play at some point. When Nader went crazy, she could have reported him all the way back mid 2021 (the fact that she didn't is another story). Something tells me Kuwait doesn't play that game.
7) She's still doing drugs. I think her heavy drug use (cocaine, meth, mdma) was more of an infantile thrill seeking and escapism, edibles were for coping with her disappointing life - dulling everything down. She may not be doing the former category anymore, but she's still killing her asthma-copd-lungs with shisha (which I still believe she is smoking). She's also probably abusing wahetever drugs Salah's sister is pocketing. This is kinda hilarious because she was justifying her cocaine use in 2021 with "Yeah doing these drugs is bad, but prescription drugs are also bad and people still take them."
She can't cut the guy off just like that. While she was retarded enough to be "in love" with Nader (like that excuses her crazy shit), she had a separate home, separate funds, her own car, her family and friend(s) to run to in case of emergencies... Now she can't do much if Salah leaves or they have a fight because she's stuck in the luxury fartbox (theoretically, what is she gonna do, book a flight home and wait it outside?). She found the most single insane situation to be in and dove straight in.
For all these reasons, she is crazy to call this "the best her life has been so far". Naturally this situation will end at some point; best case scenario being she has nothing to return to. Though a second Nader arc would complete the picture for me.
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