Islam QA is not an authority on Islam. These imams and website forget the basic foundation of Islam…you know the one based on compassion, mutual respect, humanity and all that good stuff.
A marriage between a man and a woman is not that of a master and slave. These so called authorities of Islam love to portray it as one probably to hold on to their own low self esteem.
The husband is being a jerk due to his own insecurities. How would he feel if his wife prevented him from seeing his family?! And what he is doing is totally against Islam. The wife has a religious obligation to her parents and he is preventing her from fulfilling that obligation. I suggest your friend seek another Imam’s opinion, you know the one that doesn’t hail from a Pakistan madrassa in Peshawar.