Well thought out. Nicely said.
But when you say
What they don't realize is that a con man grooms his victims over time, slowly building trust before his "game" starts....The techniques of the con man and the WTS and an abusive husband or father are all the same. Hide the real agenda, slowly lure the victims in, build trust, and then lure them a bit more and on and on.
that doesn't mean all of them do this intentionally or consciously, does it? Just curious. Because it seems to me like some of the lying abusers I have known are following this pattern without even realizing it. And then when they are confronted with it they react with a bit of shock themselves, as if they are the actual victims, because, in some strange, twisted sort of way, they are, but then end up sickly and wrongly blaming those they have abused (or something or someone else) rather than accepting the full reality of the situation and their own psychological problems.
I don't know. Good learning experience, I guess. I hope.
~Merry
