Nick Viall

She is going to be thinking about him the whole time while she's like...

dating these other guys.

That's a certain amount of power that he flexes.

He knows that he can woo her and that she'll say yes, because she's kind of powerless to that sort of thing.

You know what I mean?

And that's what feels to me, that's what feels the most dangerous about him.

is that in these chaotic situations, he can go ahead and he can regulate his nervous system and come up with a plan of how to get Taylor hooked.

And Taylor, she's an adult that can make adult decisions.

She should make better choices.

But it's so hard for her to say no to him.

And it's because of this abuse cycle that they're trapped in.

And it's because of her own abandonment wounds.

We can point this back to her father and look at her through that lens to see how Dakota is sort of pulling on those strings as well.

Going back a little bit, it feels scary thinking that Dakota has more videos or information that he hasn't released and that's kind of hanging over everybody's head of whether or not the Bachelorette season is going to be released.

Just to give context, Dakota has talked pretty openly about his addiction, just so everyone knows, and I feel like people understand, but addiction literally rewires your relationship with the truth.

When you're an addict, and you're an addict for that long and that severely, the truth is something that's sort of malleable.

I think it's very difficult for his brain to actually be honest.

This isn't an excuse for him.

This is just sort of like understanding his psyche.

Because that's just how addiction works.