He Made Me Financially Dependent So I’d Never Leave — He Forgot I Used to Be a Risk Analyst, and I’d Been Preparing for Eleven Months
He did not, in fact, control the outcome.
He controlled the setup.
The outcome, it turned out, was mine, because the final move in his plan was one that only I could make, and I simply refused to make it.
There is enormous power in that recognition, and it is available even to someone who has, on paper, almost none.
A person who controls the money and the house and the car and the insurance still does not control your face.
He does not control whether you scream.