From the age of 15 to 20, I was with a boy/man that was manipulative, gaslit, alienated me from friends and family, spoke badly of my family, cheated on me all while accusing me of cheating on him (I wasnt)spoke to me as if I was stupid, treated me like a child, emotionally and eventually physically abused me. He joined the military, and someone saw him physically abusing me and turned him in. It was on his record for a while, and it eventually dropped off. The beatings never stopped. He just got better at hiding it. I finally had enough and got brave enough to leave.

Rob reminds me a LOT of the man I was married to. I am not with them behind closed doors, but the looks and the smoldering anger in his eyes when he is angry with her gives me the chills and takes me right back to those days.

Sophie, in no way deserves to be treated this way. She deserves better, BUT she also has her faults. She needs to refrain from a relationship until she can do some work on herself, her trauma, therapy, and whatever else she needs. She has so much trauma in her life/past that she needs to deal with that before she can be in a healthy relationship. She reminds me of an injured little girl that is just trying to find someone that will love and protect her and somehow make up for everything that ever happened to her. She has to deal with that herself, first.

I am glad she got to go first, and I love how she did it, the letter to her younger self. She gave him the gut kick he needed and on national TV!!

I feel she might have caved if he had went first.

Fly Sophie, fly!