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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I'm Amber. And I'm Athena. All right, girl, you ready to do this? Let's do it. Season 4,

Episode 4. Broken. After the baby came, we were on cloud

9. Of course, there were plenty of highs and lows. We moved into our new house and I got a new

job when our son was just a baby. These were both big steps as we continued to grow and I was

feeling a little hopeful that

maybe one day things would just balance out and he would just be nice all the time. But everything

with him was always situational. You could never just trust his word and to this day, I still tell

him, Justin, you tell me not to take it to heart when you say something mean and you're mad.

But when you're mad and mean, you tell me how you don't even mean anything when you're happy.

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