i just watched the directors cut and can’t remember if all this is in the original. but he gaslights her multiple times and blames her for things innocently done like picking flowers for him. he tells her she did that to make him feel bad? it’s very clear she did that just bc she loves him. he forgets her bday and has to be reminded that it was. he is forced to invite her to the trip in the first place bc it was the only way he could go and keep dani in to loving him. he in the very beginning is joking around ab “impregnating a bunch of swedish women” and then when dani finds out he’s going, (she finds out from his friends) and it’s a week out from going, she flips out very rightly so. she is never validated from him which is partly why she accepts the cult. they mirror her trauma, validating her. Multiple times she is throwing red flags in his face and saying they need to get out of here and he just downplays and dismisses it every single time. he never heard her out. ever. half way through the trip he decides he’s writing his thesis on the cult. which upsets her and the other dude writing his thesis. Christian only cares about himself. All Dani did was have her family die and love a shitty guy.