Love bombing.

Yep.

Manipulation?

Gaslighting?

Uh-huh.

Wow.

I guess we really weren't the only ones.

You got that right.

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Season 4, episode 2, the point of no return. After his arrest for the next two years, he got

nuts. He tried to be the man my mom always wanted him to be, but it was just too late.

So then, he became obsessive. He would sit in his truck and the parking lot across the street

for my mom's huge office complex, and he would watch her with binoculars. He would even check her panties

to see if there was any trace that my mom was being intimate with other men. Next came the fake suicide

attempts. He left a suicide note written on word and left it up on his computer.

He pretended to be dead to see what my mom's reaction would be.

He was in the closet with the door partially open.

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