To expose how ridiculous Abusers who have no outside victims behave, I recount the story of George.
A man, alone, reviled, had only one contact; his first ex-wife.
George had no friends, no family. He was a man with degrees and education with no one to communicate with, save his ex-wife, who was as educated as he.
At first he behaved as a normal person, but George is an abuser. He is an abuser alone. So he abuses himself.
Each month he would write an email, touching on an interesting topic, to which his ex-wife would respond.
She always enlarged his topic, added features, leaving many ‘hanging threads’. George had to force himself to not do more than write an empty sentence in reply.
A sentence which seemed distracted and more amenity than response.
This is because George had restricted himself to only two emails a month, no matter what his ex-wife wrote.
His second email must be so bland and empty that he could feel that he was slapping away her ideas, showing intellectual superiority.
Unknown to him, his first ex-wife, who had experienced his abuse, who could sit and remember how he moved from emotional, to intellectual, spiritual, verbal, and finally, physical, knew him better than he knew himself.
And she knew, the day she saw his first email that it was ‘bait’. That he was writing to her to get her response so that he could ‘ignore’ it. In his way, he felt he was showing superiority.
As she knew this, she could post what she wanted, be as provocative as she desire, because he couldn’t answer.