Dear Carly:

Better you leave that town, ASAP. With or without your husband. Go to the college and put your studies on hold, get a record of your credits there for the purpose of transferring it to a future college, in another town far away, where you will conclude your studies.

“if I weren’t still alive?” ending of your last paragraph indicates to me that my ASAP recommendation is called for.

Better quit the college you attend and later switch to another than quit life altogether.

Of course, what his parents have done and are doing to him and to you is not fair, but they are doing it anyway. And others believe them, and so, I figure there is nothing for you to do but leave and live where those people don’t live.

anita