00:00The story starts when I'm about 21 years old. I graduated a little bit early and I was living in
00:04North Dakota. Flash forward to summer of 2017, I decided get on the dating apps and in the summer
00:12I had matched with somebody who was currently living in San Diego, California. However, that
00:18summer I had gotten attendance to attend a leadership retreat in California, UCLA. This
00:25person who I had matched with on social, on the dating apps, he's like, Hey, let's meet up. He came
00:31in picking me up in his Porsche. And the first thing he asks me within five minutes of conversation,
00:37how many people with? And I was like, what? That's an odd thing to ask. Within a span of two
00:46weeks,
00:46he had convinced me to be with him exclusively, had convinced me that I need to meet your parents,
00:52Anessa. Like every time he would say something and it would cross a boundary for me, you know,
00:57it's haram to have relationships outside of marriage. We were going on a hike. We finally
01:02get to the top and then he gets down on one knee and he proposes to me. I just felt
01:06like
01:06on top of the world, he bought me this very expensive ring. So within a day or two of me
01:11getting engaged and he was looking through my phone and he's like, who is this? And I'm like,
01:16oh, this is like one of my friends from my past. He got so enraged that he took my hat
01:21and bashed
01:22it against his car window and he threw my phone and left the car. And this was the first time
01:26he had physically like touched me in any way. Harmful.
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