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Taylor Frankie Paul is set to return to The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives Despite a turbulent news cycle and some fallen friendships.
After everything the public learned, Dakota Mortensen will not be joining her.
Thinking back on their relationship, she accuses him of gaslighting her – but still blames herself for not leaving him sooner.
Her ideas really resonate with commentators, many of whom find her story eerily familiar to their own.
“You don’t even realize…what’s going on psychologically for so long.”
In a lengthy Instagram post, Taylor says she blames herself for not leaving her toxic and abusive relationship with Dakota Mortensen much sooner.
She and Dakota share a two-year-old child.
Taylor admits she has kept quiet about many of her own struggles.
She says this is how Dakota was able to “take advantage” of her situation and continue to abuse her.
“What people don’t understand is that you don’t even realize that you’re involved in this and what’s going on psychologically for so long,” Taylor wrote.
“You just think you’re the only crazy one,” Taylor said, speaking from experience.
This is “because they distort everything which ultimately makes you feel crazy,” she explained.
Taylor went on to claim that Dakota was “motivating” her to stay with him.
She expressed feeling “twisted” that this had gone on for so long, and blamed herself again.
Some people use Mind manipulation When they really mean it He liesespecially in the political sense. But actual gaslighting can occur within abusive relationships.
In the end, of course, the relationship ended
Taylor wrote that when Dakota finally left, she was “manipulated,” then “threatened,” then “physically harmed.”
And that was not the end of the matter.
The police have called her. A year-old video was released in an attempt to sabotage her relationship and personal success Bachelorette.
She lost her friends. Her reality TV series has been on hiatus for over a month.
Taylor also ended up in court, desperately fighting for custody of Ever.
Taylor wrote about her ex-husband: “The difference between us is that my love was real for him without gaining anything, and people know that.”
She admitted that she was “not sure it was the same in return.”
Taylor went on to call her and Dakota “both wrong” in multiple ways, but she calls him out for trying to take her child from her above all else.
She also addressed her recent feud with Michaela Matthews. And no, not an apology.
“She could kick rocks instead of kicking me now,” Taylor declared.
