Kouri Richins & Gaslighting: How Abusers Make You Doubt Reality | Surviving the Fog Part 2
How did Eric Richins miss millions in debt allegedly piling up in his own marriage?
The same way thousands of people miss it every day: the fog.
This is Part 2 of “Surviving the Fog”—examining coercive control psychology through the Kouri Richins case. We’re not diagnosing anyone. We’re exploring patterns documented in abuse research.
Gaslighting isn’t casual lying. It’s sustained psychological warfare designed to make you doubt your own mind. They deny what happened with absolute confidence. They attack your credibility. They reverse victim and offender until you’re apologizing for bringing up something real.
DARVO is the playbook: Deny. Attack. Reverse Victim and Offender.
The fog is also exhaustion. Constant crisis that keeps you reactive instead of reflective. Every time you start to see clearly, a new emergency appears. That’s not coincidence—it’s strategy.
Cognitive dissonance keeps you trapped. Your brain can’t hold “I love this person” and “this person is destroying me” at the same time. So it rejects the truth to protect you from a reality that would shatter everything.
The confusion is the tool. If you’re constantly off-balance, you won’t leave. You won’t tell anyone. You won’t act.
You’re not crazy. You’re being made to feel crazy.
Kouri Richins is presumed innocent until proven guilty.
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