Leah Mayer of Chicago believed she was too intelligent and too educated to be trapped by an abusive man. And when independent thinker Martha Tyler became a pastor’s wife, she found herself believing that her husband was “too good” for her. Both were caught in the mind games, verbal assaults and eventually physical violence that destroyed their self-esteem and deemed them helpless. This Life Focus episode documents a predictable cycle that abusers use to knowingly and slowly take control of their victims.