"When 27-year-old Maria first met her boyfriend, then 29, everything seemed to be going well.Then their relationship took a darker turn."
"Soon after their relationship began, Maria learned of her partner's interest in the internet personality and his controversial philosophies."
Her boyfriend would blare Tate's social media videos from his home office."
"Things quickly went from bad to worse, Maria said. "He then started leaking controlling sexual behaviors into the relationship and would pin blame onto me if I dared question him. He would say that I'm making it sound like he'd raped me."
"He didn't really communicate with me, it was like he'd just turned into a brick wall," she added, as sadness seeped into her voice."
" Maria's boyfriend put into practice a 'double booking' method highlighted by Andrew Tate's brother, Tristan.
"Tristan Tate did a video on 'double booking', my boyfriend copied that. We went out somewhere for drinks and he invited a girl along but he didn't tell us who she was," Maria said.
"Later, I realized that he'd cheated on me with that girl and that the girl also thought that I was just a friend of his!"
Anytime Maria attempted to hold her boyfriend to account for his behavior he would again deflect blame onto her. "
" Maria began morphing herself into Andrew Tate's dream woman, all because she felt she had to please her boyfriend."
"We went into his bedroom and he me poured a drink. He initiated the sexual activity and it quickly became very rough, he then grabbed my head and started saying derogatory things to me."
"It wasn't consensual, I was drunk, and I remember trying to crawl away," she added."
"He acted nonchalant, like he didn't know what I wanted to talk about. It was that kind of power dynamic where he brushed off something that had actually happened," she said, ruminating on her boyfriend's avoidant attitude towards the incident."
" She broke up with him soon after that confrontation, but like many other victims of sexual assault chose not to report the offence. In the months that followed, Maria struggled with feelings of shame, guilt and low self-esteem after being degraded and dismissed by the one person she felt she should be able to unconditionally trust."
" Maria told Newsweek that through the help of her friends, family, and professional services she was able to move past her failed relationship and heal from the abuse she'd endured. Unfortunately, for many victims the road to recovery can be much longer."
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