Ep 379 Sleeping with the Enemy: Profiling the Husband Who Drugged and Raped with Zoe Watts, Part 1

Zoe Watts was shocked to discover the man she had been married to for 22-year was drugging and raping her.

Laura interviews Zoe and asks her to take us back to the beginning of their relationship- when she was just 17 and he was 28. He was charismatic, well-liked and seemingly the perfect partner. But as Laura asks more questions, she reveals a deeply disturbing, diabolical and dangerous man who knew what he was doing. This did not come out of the blue.

In this episode, Laura and Zoe unravel:

• Grooming, love bombing and gaslighting

• Strangulation and suffocation

• Drug-facilitated rape

• Stalking and coercive control

• DARVO

• Red flags disguised as romance

• The “mask of sanity” and impression management

• Those who backed up the abuse

Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of domestic abuse, coercive control, stalking, suffocation, sexual violence and drug-facilitated rape.

Be curious, ask questions and always trust your instincts.

More from Zoe Watts  

🌐 Website: endeyecheck.org

📸 Instagram: @zoewatts.sms_

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#CoerciveControl #Stalking #DomesticAbuse #DomesticViolence #IntimatePartnerViolence
#Grooming #LoveBombing #DARVO #PowerAndControl #AbuseIsAPattern
#SexualAbuse #MaritalRape #Suffocation #VictimSurvivor #Survivor
#PredatoryBehaviour #PerpetratorStrategy #ImpressionManagement #MaskOfSanity
#TrustYourInstincts #LauraRichards

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