It's pretty crazy watching all of this happen in real-time. Seeing Casey delete all her private social platforms, seeing him isolate her from her family & friends, and then see her blame herself for keeping him from traveling. He also clearly told her to ignore the 'weirdos' online and probably feeds her the same lines he posts from his sock puppet about how they are liars and never right.Very good observations. It's a tale as old as time... forgive the pun on Beauty & The Beast; here it's more Dowdy & The Creepy Dwarf. One of the most important reasons women don’t leave is because it can be dangerous. The more they are 'in' and the more they are isolated the greater the danger. The fear is very real – there is a huge rise in the likelihood of violence after separation from friends, family and a job that gives a route to independence. And the Seething Elf's behavior with his ex "Jackie"(?) over a fucking potato shows this is a possibility now. The perpetrator often minimises, denies or blames the abuse on the victim. Victims may be ashamed or make excuses to themselves and others to cover up the abuse and there are already elements of this here: "Oh Kyle. I'm sorry I have to work to keep us from traveling. I'M the perp and YOU are the victim." It's disgusting but not unusual at all and par for the course.
And this abuse often relies on isolating the victim, weakening her connections with family and friends, making it extremely difficult to seek support. Perpetrators will often try and reduce a woman’s contact with the outside world to prevent her from recognising that his behavior is wrong. Isolation leads women to become extremely dependent on their controlling partner. This seems to be happening with his "quit your job so we can be happy" nonsense.
Abusers often control every aspect of their victim’s life – making it impossible to have a job or financial independence, and again Casey is and idiot if she ever quits that job. By controlling access to money, he'd make her much more dependent on him. Asking for help is not easy but if her family gives a shit about her, they'd do well to monitor her as closely as possible. And we've seen that her family has quickly faded into the background and away.
He acts out of a need to control because of his lack of self esteem and sense of inferiority, fearing she'll see him for who he is and leave him. Red flags are everywhere and she seems to be following the 'domestic abuse' victim path step by step. Good luck to her. She's going to need it.
Making her quit her job would further isolate her and make her 100% dependent on him, so that his abuse can escalate without the ability for Casey to leave. He seems very fixated on that. Almost desperate as if he can sense that she was distancing from him. Like I said earlier, her family should be HORRIFIED if they are watching what is going on.