got some unhelpful comments like "I'd never let someone do that to me", "That would happen to me once only", and "I’d have slammed his face into the steering wheel and remind him who TF he was talking too!" Well, let me tell you something. It's easy to say you'd be the hero of your own story when you're comfortably seated outside the narrative. But the reality is, abusers are experts at manipulation. They start small, weaving a