I want to validate your story and your courage to tell it. Mine is very similar. Thankfully, I am in a much better place, now, as well. You have thoroughly detailed how these types of things can develop and how these predators operate. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for the kind words. It’s still a very emotionally difficult thing to talk about even after all these years.
I’m so glad your story has a happy ending as well, many do not!