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This is a pattern.

Okay, so I know when I do this, they're going to do this.

So I know how I need to respond to this.

And before you know it, that understanding of that blueprint is what actually gives you the ability to eventually leave.

I mean, that's what Elizabeth Smart actually did, where she manipulates him and says, I think God is telling us to go back to Utah and put it sort of into his hands that God's telling you to do this because you're the one that needs.

And then he says, oh, you're right.

That is what we should do.

I mean, it's really incredible.

Yeah.

You make them think it was their idea.

You make them think that you need them.

You make them think that they're in control of you.

Once you see that and you can twist it, then you can start to separate yourself.

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