Dear Eric: Your answer to the young mother whose husband didn’t like her friendships (“Finally Have Friends”) missed some troubling signs: She might be in an abusive relationship. Abusers often isolate their spouse from everyone around them, making her completely dependent on him. This family moved hundreds of miles from their former home, and she doesn’t appear to have a support system among his family or friends (it’s his hometown). There’s no mention of how, or whether, he’s sympathetic to the problems she had adjusting to the changes. Now he’s trying to keep her from the friends who seem to be her only lifeline, with comments and actions that don’t appear connected to reality. Having worked for a domestic violence nonprofit, all of this raises red flags.