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Hey [name redacted], the situation seems messy. This person is a powerful man in Silicon Valley has seemed to left a trail of emotional and physical destruction. I’m an anonymous person, but I want to say I believe you, and hope you get some closure and justice from this situation. It’s unfortunate the thread has attracted a fair share of gaslighters including his current girlfriend.

It’s awful.

The worst part is the ugly truth of how easy it is to get away with violence against women.

Haha you are such a hateful person. Please get help. Get therapy. I’m perfectly aware of what happened and I am not being “brainwashed.” You were not there. Quit telling my story as your story. He didn’t abuse you. He was trying to get you off his back, and you kept harassing him from multiple fake numbers. I would tell someone like you something mean to make you stop liking me too if I were in that position. Sometimes you have to block someone if they hurt you. He blocked you, and you created fake numbers to continually harass him and make his life a living nightmare. Does the make you happy, [name redacted]? Do you get off on this?

[name redacted] sexually assaulted and emotionally abused me. You can't change that.

[name redacted] unblocked me and tried to convince me to have sex with him again. He's the one that reinitiated contact.

I thought staying in contact would ultimately result in the apology I deserve, but resulted in him trying to convince me to commit suicide.

You’re telling things out of order. You continued to harass him and message him from multiple numbers, you lied to him and said you had a therapist, and he reached out to him bc you made him and he wanted to make peace with you. The therapist said he didn’t even know you! He shouldn’t have said that and he didn’t mean it. He was trying to get you off his back at that point. And I saw that you agreed to a Friends with benefits relationship bc you desperately wanted him back.

That therapist disappointed me in how they handled the situation, but I did not lie and genuinely made an effort.

And that was not a therapeutic relationship – I asked him to mediate Alex understanding the harm he had done to me. And this was after Alex reached out to me again months later.

I had not contacted Alex in two weeks and had no intention of ever contacting him again when he reached out and asked me for casual sex.

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