I have since vowed to go it on my own. I am a survivor. No longer a victim. There are not many who can get their minds around the fact that things like that happen somewhere besides television, to say nothing of it happening to someone they know or are close to. I still get flashbacks, and that's hard for someone to take if I let them see it.
Humans are generally so uncomfortable with someone else's pain.
He very quickly and skillfully started messing with my mind, claiming in short order that he was in love with me, and then shortly after that claiming that he was a key member of the Yakuza, the Japanese version of the Mafia. In my na vet , I believed all these things, but not completely, so I started trying to dig up information about him. I had a guilty conscience, which he of course immediately picked up. He was like that, and had me so scared that I believed my family's lives were all in danger if I did not do exactly as he told me. There is a long list of crimes, including rape, beatings, starvation, sleep deprivation, torture of various kinds, extortion, and continual brainwashing.