Re: Strictness?
Islam teaches us that you should marry to relieve your problems. Do you think Allah (swt) would forgive her if she forcefully abandoned her parents (however wrong they may be, they still care about her) for freedom?
Keep in mind that all this crap about marrying for love, or your childhood love, high school sweet heart, all that mumbo jumbo, was created by the Western world to brainwash us.