gaslighting.It’s a cruel and malicious form of emotional abuse used to make someone question themselves and their own sanity by distorting the truth – or outright lying – in order to skew things in your favor.For example, when Linda found evidence of an affair in Jeff’s belongings – lipstick stains, the smell of perfume, and a stash of condoms – he insisted that those things were all hers.“Honey, don’t you remember?
You wore this shade at dinner the other night? And the smell of your perfume always changes when it’s on me. It must just be the way my body reacts to it.
Those condoms? They’re for us. It was an impulse buy, you know, just in case.”With the right inflection and confident smirk Jeff, has Linda convinced that she must be wrong..
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