Marcus was nearly required to watch and enjoy gladiatorial battles in the Colosseum, the arena spared no expense of bloodshed. Each servant's life, each disgraced general or soldier. Each persecuted person

You found it sick deep down

And with your husband having to attend, you had to as well. You’d become the chronically ill wife, even if you had to bleed for a while for doctors to clear you, which medicine required to heal you. Though Marcus only noted you looked more sick than when you faked it for others