She thinks he is the last desperate chance for her to have a relationship. She knows she is middle aged, fat and insecure. She knows her chances of finding someone are pretty nil. So she is going to talk herself into thinking that he is a great guy "you don't know him". She will always be searching for the snippets of the parts she likes and making excuses for the parts she wants to ignore.
Assuming she doesn't croak in the interim, she is going to crash hard when this King Tut thing explodes. She thinks she is so unique, that no one gets it. She will pay for stuff without him asking, saying she is so caring, but the reality is, she 's trying to get him to care. Every time he does something that doesn't meet her teenage fantasies of how a boyfriend should be, she will spend hours and hours "talking to him" to try and talk him into being a different person.
,She is such a typical case, but it will be worse when it all falls apart. She has stated publicly she doesn't give a shit what the people in her life think, some of them will be gone. She has no career or even aspirations to distract her from pain. She has no other interests other than him and eating, so there will be no refuge. She has no routine to feel grounded by. Also, she is full of anger, so when it falls apart and he doesn't come through with his time, attention and filling her teenage dreams, she is going to be raging. She will rage about "all I've done for him" and possibly bunny boiler levels.
Even if he never hits her again, she will be miserable because he can never live up to her romantic, childish fantasies. She will get tired of squalor and she said herself she tired of taking care of other people (this is bullshit, but just wait until the bloom is off the rose of taking care of him) But right now, she thinks with enough time and "caring" she can convert him into a cookie cutter version of her adolescent dreams
I would feel sorry for her, because loneliness is a terrible thing, but I can't because she is such a fucking cunt. So I have no sympathy.