He was the only one meant to cuddle me. No one else was meant to....

The only way to come to resolution is to be naked... before God.

It was like a Dothraki Horde. It was MAGNIFICENT!

A Courageous reader responds....

The Perfect Love!

Other methods may be more intense, using techniques of coercive persuasion; involving guilt, shame and fear.

I am not in a cult....

Deciding against your own self interest.

Listen to the sound of my v o i c e .............

An EVIL, EVIL man......

Stage 7. At this stage, some people try to reason with the leaders. They will either arrange for visits or write long agonizing letters. Some hope that they can change the system or get some to agree  with them.

He was grooming me. I didn't see it then, but it's so obvious now. I wanted a mentor; a teacher. When I got around him more, that's when I was like, 'Oh my God, he's....."

Steven Hassan is the founder the Freedom of Mind Resource Center Inc., and holds a Masters degree in counseling psychology from Cambridge College.

This is a great injury to their moral psyche. One they may never recover from.

When I bothered to actually read the definition my jaw dropped. How did I, with a supposed enquiring 'scientific' mind, completely ignore this and not pursue a definition?!

The first few weeks of my defection were filled with fear. My psyche ripping away from a familiar 'safe' prison. I was torn between worlds.

You might notice that these processes have been done to you again and again and again. The strategies really are quite remarkable. They throw you intellectually off balance and you end up feeling like everything you are concerned with is really all your fault and your creation.