Heart-Pouring/Mind-Punching.

Your case has a fairly gradual revelation with time, it’s important to remember that some cases will remain a mistery, maybe for good. Thanks to the incredible acting skills and the ever-growing ability to manipulate or either alternate a strategy.
If your husband still had something to ‘milk from you’ but your were by then fully aware, he would have had to change his poking techniques and let you believe in the: ‘Why I didn’t leave’ part that was very thorough and convincing.

Hearing more stories could definitely benefit to save fellow victims. Immensly grateful for yours.

I spent the last hour reading attentively every single line, found myself reading some parts twice and highlighting major paragraphs thanks to the livenss and real exprienced based writing. It makes everything much more trustworthy and personal. The readers can resonate with your pain and harves your hard won lessons.
I also enjoyed the whole-hearted and down to earth comments, you touched many, and taught even more.

I can easily write a whole 34m read response to you and the readers but instead, I’d love to leave a piece I just finished a few days ago, a piece which demonstrates the cognitive dissonance you mentioned, now I know better.

Kill-Switch Therapy
That’s a mere day of years I’ve been through, every minute is like an hour and every hour is like a year.
I hope some of view can prevent themselves from doing the same suicidal games of hoping to heal faster.

Kisses from the ocean, anchored in Africa.
Longing to fly,

Birdy