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Originally Posted by goldendoodle
Also!!! If one has actually BEEN in an abusive relationship, you'd know that the abusive person often seems totally charming and normal at first! They have to reel people in somehow, duh. They don't become unhinged right off the bat usually. And when you're young you aren't as good as listening to your intuition, especially if you have low self esteem already, which makes it even easier to be reeled in by those types despite alarms going off deep in your reptile brain.
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That's a good point, especially if people have psychopathic tendencies they'll often be incredibly charming at first. Sometimes to such an extent that there aren't even any red flags to make alarms go off.