IMO the author is correct in her assessment. (Also for the record, I consider her actions admirable.)

I'm not saying that getting a divorce is necessarily preferable to staying in such a situation; only that I'd have done it if I saw absolutely no other way to regain pride. There are likely ways to regain pride that don't involve divorce, like the author's first suggestion of "go trekking in Nepal", and of course I'd consider those carefully first.