Tab was always successful, never missing an opportunity to gain money or experience... so, thats why joining the cult and becoming and office worker was something he'd do, and working there would be for the rest of his life...

he was your fiancee. The cult he worked at abducted him and used the ferrofluid to make him somewhat of an immortal until old age... that gave him 52 years of being a puppet, as he was 28.

You were told you couldn't help or else he'd be killed.