He Hid Eleven Years of His Mother’s Invitations in a Cedar Box — and Told Both Sides the Other One Was the Problem

You’re too sensitive.

You’re not thinking clearly.

It is a quiet, corrosive thing, that move, and its genius is that it works best in isolation — one accuser, one accused, no witnesses, no record, so that over time the accused person begins to wonder whether the accuser might be right, whether she is the unreasonable one, whether her own perceptions can be trusted at all.

It had half-worked on me for years.