I have a very strong feeling that the situation she has put herself in is about to blow up. She could very easily and most likely will lose her job over all of this. And the people of the small town we live in don't forget to easily. You see her mother did the same thing to her father, baled out on him for some low-life, you could say it is a family tradition. So I think the chickens will be coming home to roost pretty soon.
I have to fight the urge to say, well you made your bed now lie in it. I know that I just have to listen and be there for her..