Same here, my first serious relationship at 18 was with a narcissist. I just thought he was madly in love with me, but he gradually alienated me from everyone and controlled every move I made.Its amazing what you go along with under coercive control. I was there. I am a strong strong woman, always have been, but still found myself doing things against every single instinct in my body! Its a bloody horrible situation that you don't actually understand until you are out of it and then it takes years and years of healing. x
It wasn't love but control, I know that now.
They don't think like the rest of us, everything is an act. That's why I have zero sympathy for Dan wheeler, he doesn't mean any of it when he's apologising. Everything he says is so that he can get his own way.
I hope Sam gets her life back sooner rather than later