Dr. Bethany Marshall

These are all nicks and cuts in his delusional belief system that they are going to get back together.

As I've said so many times about stalkers, Nancy, stalkers always imagine that they have a unique and special love relationship with the victim, even though there's no evidence to support that.

So he goes in the home and he sees the baby clothes.

It's like, what?

She's had a baby.

She was supposed to have a baby with me or, or he sees the perfume.

She's wearing that perfume with another man.

She wore that perfume with me.

And, and Nancy, I am sure Monique is so demoralized and so panicked at this point.

I do treat stalking victims.

And by the time they get to my office, they're often in a major depressive episode because they've been made to feel so helpless.

and as if there is just absolutely no way out.

And think about strangulation during unwanted forced sex.

You are looking the victim in the eyes and kind of playing a cat and mouse game with them.

So if he is starting to strangle her, she's trying to protest.

He is up close and intimate with her pain and her anxiety and

He has the power to release the pressure when she gasps for air and says, I'll do anything you want.

I promise I'll never leave you.

I'll never make you mad again.

Then he applies the pressure again.