Nick Viall

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.

You sort of play with the truth.

because you're so concerned about how you're seen or your shame or how to get more drugs.

So it's hard to kind of like nail down Dakota with the truth because there's always something that he's hiding and there's always gonna be something that he is hiding.

And he's kind of talked about this before and admitted to it, but he's also, instead of being addicted to drugs, he's addicted to her now.

He's her drug.

And it's easier for me to treat a client that's addicted to a substance than somebody who's addicted to a person, because at least you can just drop the substance, go cold turkey with that.

But they have a kid and they're never going to be able to go cold turkey.

So there's always going to be something I think that he's going to have to be holding in his pocket.

that will make her look bad or make her dysregulated or hold the truth from her because that's just how he operates.

That's how he survived being an addict.

That's how he's surviving being addicted to her.