My comment to an entry 'Real-Life ‘Baby Reindeer’ Woman Complains “I’m The Victim. He’s Stalking…
There's so much to say I feel a lot of it has been covered. While I've never had such an extreme stalker ive def had my share of things I could relate to in this show.
I think one part was how you can get pulled in even when you know better.
I very briefly dated someone who was very unwell I quickly realized and not in therapy or medication and I genuinely did feel bad I knowing they had no one and lived in the deep south where mental illness is not taken seriously so at first I thought I was helping by being their friend after we stopped dating but I am not a professional and realized I was enabling his behavior and obsession with me by being nice to him and eventually realized cutting him off was the safest choice. He then harassed me online for 8 months but "luckily" I did not live near him so I never felt he was going to come see me but yeah sometimes it was very hard not to argue with him even though I knew better! He just knew what to say to get a reaction out of me but I stopped responding and telling him to leave me alone and that really was the best and smartest thing to do.
Also, for people who said it ends up a optimistic note I did not feel that at all I was like oh its over where is the optimism? (dont feel like this is a spoiler because ive read different things this is just my opinion.)
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