I haven't been abused, but the portrayal of abuse in this seems really realistic. I like how, despite it being a student-teacher relationship, the teacher doesn't have any power over the student as she doesn't teach her. It makes the relationship much less problematic. I've already read this but I wanted to read it again. I wish it was longer so we could see some romance, as well as showing how many times it takes to leave an abusive relationship. The fact that she was able to leave and we don't see her struggling to stay out of the relationship is probably the only unrealistic thing about the depiction of abuse in this. Then again, the story ended before we saw that, so maybe she does struggle to leave for good but we just don't see it. All in all it's an excellent story.