"He may lock her out of her house or control her movements by taking her car keys or forcing her to quit her job."
--ANNE L. GANLEY, PHD
Being forced to quit your job, because if you loved him you'd put him first--is what he tells you. Your job cuts into his time where you give him attention, lord knows he needed that. Not once did this happen to women/girls Coward dated, but TWICE! I’m sure there are more, I'm almost certain. He made them quit their jobs because it took away from him. The people they worked with always knew he forced them to quit, they saw Coward for what he was and but out of fear they didn’t speak up. Sometime later, in some cases it was years it would be brought up that they knew it was him that made you quit. It still stings with humiliation all these years later. Forcing you to do things is how he controls you, it's text book emotional abuse. Forcing you to suck him off because you pissed him off for something stupid, god it was always such trite stuff. Holding your head down with tears running down your face, and making sure to hold your mouth on him when he came, because it was just another move of power, and how he asserted his control. To not greet him at the door, road, wherever you might be was a sign of disrespect. No matter that you had other things to do, you better walk to end of the god damn dirt road and sit on a fence post, in all seasons of weather to be waiting for him. No matter that you’re in the middle of cooking, or on the phone with someone, GET off-- the whine of his truck was near and that meant you best be there for him! He was a charmer that, Coward of California…a snake charmer.
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