He didn’t have to talk me out of my suspicions anymore.

I talked myself out of them and then apologized to him for having had them.

A woman who cannot trust her own eyes is a woman who can be walked, calmly, all the way to her own funeral, thanking you for your patience the whole way.

That is not a side effect of what he did to me.

That was the foundation of it.

Everything else was only possible because he built that first.