It didn’t fit the typical scenario
It didn’t have the ‘typical players’
It didn’t follow the typical route
It mainly happened behind closed doors
Which resulted in no ‘real evidence’ being left behind
No physical marks were present
But it was definitely there
From the power control
The gaslighting
The psychological mind games
The weaponizing of inanimate objects
The use of a child to get to you
No, it didn’t fit ‘the parameters’
But that was the point
And the effect was still the same
The consequences were still real
And very nearly deadly
My case wasn’t typical
And it didn’t have the typical scenarios involved in abuse cases
But it still had one thing that made it scary as hell: a covert, malicious narcissist bent on mentally destroying another human being for fun
Island of Misfit Mamas 