good girls grow up so fast 5

In this section of 'Gravedigger's Daughter', Rebecca meets her eventual husband, Tignor. We already know my feelings on their relationship, but I still believe that the way they met is worth a mention. Rebecca is working at a hotel in town, and she's a very handsome woman so she's always being hit on by these creeps but she ignores them. One day she goes to clean a room and the man on the bed looks like he's dead so she steps closer to get a look. He jumps up grabs her and it appears as though he's about to rape her when Tignor, even though she doesn't know him yet, here's her cries from the hall and saves her. Saves her by promptly beating the man almost to death. Does this not seem like the slightest bit of foreshadowing? Why would you even marry a man who had a temper like that, despite the fact that the beating was for a good cause, wouldn't you be a little nervous? Well apparently she wasn't. In fact she promptly falls head over heals in love with him, the way she never has before, and doesn't stop thinking about him until she finally sees him again a couple of months later. Pardon me for thinking that a relationship where he stops you from being raped by another man, is at least a little bit under a dark cloud from the beginning. But many relationships are doomed from the beginning, and we enter them anyway, thinking that it will all be worth it. Like Romeo and Juliet, their parents completely hated each other, which means it will never end well, but they just went ahead with their cow eyes. Or Blair and Chuck from Gossip Girl, who are possibly the most self-destructive, I-am-an-island type people you've ever heart of, but you know they're meant to be together even though they can never be together.... Although Rebecca and Tignor might not quite be to that level, I still don't see the point.