WTF are you talking about? I don't know about the book but in the film Percy's mom hooked up with Gabe to keep Percy safe, because of Gabe's beer stench. I despise domestic violence, not that there was any real hint of it in the film (sure Gabe was a jerk who treated Sally like a doormat but I don't think it was ever hinted that he hit her or even psychologically abused her), but it seems that Sally only hooked up with him to protect Percy and could easily have left if she wanted to (she even tells Percy that Gabe has done more for him than he knew).
Yes, Gabe was as asshat but Sally was using him from the start, so she was hardly an angel, and once he'd served his purpose she was happy for him to be turned to stone.
This stuff rubs me the wrong way, because it's clear that the underlying subtext, at least as far as it's presented in the film, is that Gabe is a human so he's expendable in the 'greater good' of keeping Percy alive, rather than saying anything specific about punishing men who commit domestic violence. If Sally hadn't made a choice to continue staying with Gabe and was a genuinely terrified/fearful victim of domestic abuse I'd have a lot more sympathy for her final actions, but she apparently could have left at any point and only stayed for Gabe's stench.
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