The positive and negative influences of outside players. How a religious community offered me stability, kindness, and the structure I needed to escape the coercive abuse. At the same time, I unravel the manipulative dynamic between Sean’s ex-wives: How appeared to purposefully provoke his mental instability and use their children as bait to draw him in just as he was to be awarded a class-action settlement check.

The positive and negative influences of outside players. How a religious community offered me stability, kindness, and the structure I needed to escape the coercive abuse. At the same time, I unravel the manipulative dynamic between Sean’s ex-wives: How appeared to purposefully provoke his mental instability and use their children as bait to draw him in just as he was to be awarded a class-action settlement check.