We met at youth group at the age of 12 and started dating. Things were blissful. He was kind, sweet, very thoughtful, encouraging, extremely charming and everyone loved him. There was no signs or issues READ MORE
This was my first relationship, I thought this might be normal…
I had just moved with my family from Washington to California and I was meeting new people. I was hanging out with older college-age students. This person was a friend of a friend. In the READ MORE
When I left, I told as many people as I could about my experience…
Wet met on an online dating site and had a great few first dates. He was easy going and we had a fun, great connection. Eventually, he became upset when I spent time with my READ MORE
He would swear things were different, that he was going to change…
We met in high school and later on a dating site. At first, things were really good. He was very loving and kind. He was so great and we were just having fun together. We READ MORE
He’d force me to send photos, then threaten to share them if I left…
We met at band camp, and it was like a fairytale love. I’d never been that happy before, in that first month of our relationship. But things began to change when he started controlling me, READ MORE
He wanted me to believe that no one would ever love me the way he did…
I was really young and I met him at my first job. He was a cook, I was a cashier. In the beginning, things were perfect. He was charming, nice and super sweet. He would READ MORE
He manipulated me into thinking my beliefs were inferior…
We met at university. In the beginning, he was funny, intelligent, well-cultured, sociable. He would want to go out and spend time with friends, traveling and having fun conversations, going to concerts and taking pictures. READ MORE
I shut myself off from everyone and became so cold…
We first met because we worked together. We started talking and seemed to have a lot in common. From the beginning, it felt like the perfect love story. Eventually, the more time I spent with READ MORE
Love made me try harder to keep him calm and happy…
We met on Facebook, and in the beginning, I was so into him and so excited for any time we spent together. It was summer so we both were out of school and had more READ MORE
I was doing everything “right” …Why is everything always my fault?
We met at work. At first, things were AMAZING!! Too good to be “true love.” We had an immediate connection. Eventually when things changed, he was controlling. There was manipulation and obvious lies – even READ MORE