As for parents marriages, I think my mother married my father on the rebound from her real love, but since he was a narcissist too, it probably wouldn't have worked out much better. My father was a seriously damaged man because his parents divorced when he was 5 and they wouldn't let him live with his beloved mother, sending him away to a boy's military school instead. Then he went off to war and came back weird, as many soldiers do. I think his life was sad. My mother's mother died of cancer when she was 12, so really, neither of my parents had a positive role model of parenting, but I guess they just felt they had to procreate because that was what men and women did in those days. Very sad for all of them. 

As for Marolyn, she was raised as a good Catholic girl, so she already had the cult mentality. Believing as she must have, that prem was god incarnate, what else could she do? I am sure she has had her doubts and desires to leave him, but let's face it, a lot of women just don't know how to leave a man, especially a god man. She is a typically battered and abused spouse, emotionally if not physically. I was once envious of her, but oh my god how grateful am I today that I never had to go through what she did. Imagine sleeping with that man?