when a person can't move on after a bad thing

[alpacinou]

I'm trying to describe a situation where a person can't move on after a bad thing.

Are these correct and natural?

1. Even after her divorce she was still stuck in her marriage with an abusive partner. She could never find her way out of that destructive relationship.

2. She got stuck in her broken childhood and could never find her way out of the trauma of those years.

Are there better ways of expressing the idea?

 

[emsr2d2]

I'm trying to describe a situation where a person can't move on after a bad thing.

Are these correct and natural?

1. Even after her divorce, she was still stuck in [STRIKE]her[/STRIKE] a marriage [STRIKE]with[/STRIKE] to an abusive partner. She could never find [STRIKE]her[/STRIKE] a way out of that destructive relationship.

2. She got stuck in her broken childhood and could never find her way out of the trauma of those years.

Are there better ways of expressing the idea?

See my changes to #1.
Try to rewrite the blue, underlined part in #2. It doesn't work.

 

[alpacinou]

Try to rewrite the blue, underlined part in #2. It doesn't work.

What is the problem?

Are these better?

1. She got stuck in a damaging childhood.

2.She got mired in a broken childhood.

 

[emsr2d2]

No, neither of those work either. Try something like "She felt as if she were stuck in her terrible/awful/traumatic childhood".

 

[alpacinou]

No, neither of those work either. Try something like "She felt as if she were stuck in her terrible/awful/traumatic childhood".

Is the problem "broken childhood"? Or does that collocation work on its own?

 

[emsr2d2]

If I'd thought "broken childhood" worked, do you think I'd have changed it?