Except that she let him remain homeless and fell in love with another man.
The falling in love with another man happened some years later still.
I find it apalling how ready people in this comment subtree are to villify a woman based on their ignorant misjudgement of the situation.
They were married and had been for a long time (i.e. demonstrably not a "sham marriage"). The husband would have got a permanent residency and work visa in Germany.
"I provided for you and our 8 kids for 15 years but it's pretty much OK if you just want to go to live in Germany to sleep with another dude and leave me here to die alone by hunger just because now I'm hitting rock bottom economically"
Is not about love, is about being a fucking decent human being.