My Family Praised One Son-In-Law And Belittled The Other — Until One Holiday Exposed The Truth They Didn’t Want To See.

performance, probably one he’d practiced, designed to plant seeds of doubt about Vivien in case she ever tried to leave him or tell the truth.

This was DARVO—Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender. A classic abuser tactic I’d studied extensively, written papers about, taught other therapists to recognize.

I didn’t pull away from his grip. Years of continue reading …