Ingrid Santa Rita was a contestant looking for love on season 4 of ‘Love Is Blind Brazil’ after she’d endured much turmoil in her life from a very young age, having given birth to her first daughter at age 13. She thought she found it in Leandro. The two got married at the end of their run, and we all thought she found her ‘happily-ever-after’. At the reunion, we found out that it wasn’t all rainbows and sunshine for the couple, and that the two ended up divorcing. But not only did they divorce, there was marital rape involved too, with Leandro sexually assaulting Ingrid several times throughout the marriage, and even going as far as raping her in her sleep. Here, we break down the entire history of marital rape and how it came to be a legal matter in the 1990’s. We explain marital rape through the eyes and perspective of Colleen Hoover and her ‘It Ends With Us’ character, Lily Bloom. We explore how ‘Love Is Blind Brazil failed Ingrid and fellow domestic violence survivors. And finally, we empathize what companies can do to protect women working for them from violence in the workplace to make sure that no woman ever has to go through what Ingrid Santa Rita had to go through during her time of employment at ‘Love Is Blind Brazil’. Let’s discuss…