CW for spoiler. A recent conversation on here led me to reread Ursula K. Leguin's novelette The Women Men Don't See, which anticipated the man/bear encounter question by many years with extraterrestrial creatures instead of bears, but the moral is the same.
Couch chose bear. Will JD Vance ever recover from this?
This performance by a testosterone pumped man-baby is exactly why so many women would choose a bear over a man in the now infamous #bearOrMan thought experiment.
https://youtu.be/NKHZgqv5V9o?si=IquAzhRtrcLaYzi1
As for his wife - I feel like she has Stockholm syndrome in that she seems convinced she cannot live without her alcoholic aggressive husband. He must have been selling her some really prime grade gaslighting that she isn't delighted to see him hauled off to jail so she can enjoy the rest of the cruise alone.