The onset of Sean’s narcissistic injury and the construction of a double life. As his control began to slip, he shifted into covert devaluation and image management— splitting realities, rewriting the narrative, and laying the groundwork for a prolonged campaign of reputational erasure and psychological destabilization.

A special warfare veteran used his training to run a psychological operation on me — one disguised as a relationship. Documented abuse, blackmail, and mind control followed. This is the story of surviving it.