This particular DV "relationship" offered an ideal time to educate all readers of the safest sequential path for handling it. Those who best know these dangers are the folks who run the "safe-houses" for battered women. Those folks will tell that first you have to surreptitiously insulate, isolate the victim from the "reach" of the abuser.
We can all "fill in the blanks" on what would have transpired had Meyer "knee-jerk" fashion had called Zach Smith in and said, "Zach, I know you have choked your wife. You're fired." So Z. Smith goes home, starts drinking, with his "punching bag" wife right there.??
Seems to me, the needed order must be :
First & foremost, the victim-wife must initiate & agree with "barrier" separation from her abuser.
Once that's set, .turn all over to experts for solo counseling for Zach, solo for her . Later, after passing the tests via consent of wife-victim give counseling for path to reconciliation (doubtful) or divorce. Now, OSU could pay for this.