The Program on Netflix is fucking incredible and I will rave about it until yall go watch it. Be warned, LOTS of trigger warnings for abuse and cult tactics, but it lays out how and why abuse happens in ways that I think are really important to recognizing it in other contexts.
I know I compartmentalize well because there is one dude that I haven’t seen since like 2018 and I have zero idea how he is doing on a personal level, but we communicate on a bimonthly basis to share Catholic memes. It’s a very exclusive friendship