Stockholm Syndrome
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Last published Tue, May 31, 2022
Everything in the world started making sense because there were so many things that were finally opening up for me and money was topped by all, and then Him, of course. He was the reason for all of this, this supposed fortune of mine.
When I first saw him, he appeared to be rich, handsome and a successful psychologist. It was only when I started living with him that I knew what kind of man he really was. And how to forget- the truck load of insecurities he was carrying with himself everyday, everywhere. I thought if I would take him, everything would be fine. And it was until I started feeling the same he felt for me. Every word he said to me started to rouse something that I never could have imagine, something only he did to me.
But he was not Elliott. His name was Regan Mann and he suffered from Stockholm Syndrome.
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