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So, how did it resolve?

Well, at this point, I think, so I'm realizing quickly that things are weird.

And his family is also really intensely religious.

His dad would hold what he called sermons to kind of try to teach the family.

These really intense, almost like fundamentalist kind of Mormon doctrine.

And Luke would kind of use those things to propel whatever it was, you know, what he was

doing in the relationship.

And we had a lot of conversations and I think for a long time, I still felt really guilty

and very broken because of the eating disorder.

And I didn't want to feel like it was all of his fault and he would always say, it takes

two to tango.

Like, I'm not being abusive.

You are.

That was a conversation that happened a lot.

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