Good Morning Everyone!:seeya:
I read the closed thread and the discussion seemed to be that Travis manipulated Jodi too. How can someone manipulate a master manipulator(JA) who has honed that tool probably all of their adult life?
Posters who have actually suffered domestic violence abuse knows all too well that the abuser can put the abused persons into postions they had not rather be in. It isnt as simple as 'oh if you are being abused then just get out of it and move on.' It is much more complex than that. That is like trying to tell someone to quit smoking and the person telling the person has never smoked in their lives and have no clue how addictive smoking can be.
I dont believe Travis manipulated her. I do think from his childhood background he probably saw that Jodi was 'different' and tried to support her. Never did he realize he had gotten himself into a serious situation that would only worsen with a woman that was hellbent on having ownership of him.
It seems Travis tried to do everything he could think of to get away from her smothering death grip. He did not go visit her when she moved...he did not stalk Jodi but went on with the life he had known before her......he didnt spy on her in her home or destroy her property.
He did finally try to make a stand and told her off when she once again invaded his privacy by hacking into his accounts. But what Travis didnt know is one has to be very careful not to rile an abuser for they will come back with a vengence 10 fold. DV victims are in more danger than any other time in their situation when they tell the abuser to leave them alone. The abuser will rage when they believe they are losing control over their victim and can and often act out violently at that time.
The only thing I can understand why some think he may have manipulated her is he continued to text and email her when she is in CA. Again as a DV survivor that makes logical sense to me. Far better to appease her from afar than to have to deal with her eye to eye. He was trying to keep a distance from Jodi hoping the text and emails would satisfy her enough that she wouldnt come once again to AZ to sneak in his home again or show up unannounced like he had to deal with in the past over and over again.
But when he told her he couldnt come see her afterall (I dont think he ever had any intentions of doing so .....it was a stall tactic) at the end of May that was the last straw. No one displeases someone like Jodi Arias' and gets away with it.
So what did she do. She stole a gun, rented a car 90 miles away, dyed her hair, cut her phone off so it couldnt be traced while she was in AZ, and she came there unannounced once again. And just like Jodi had always done she used her most powerful manipulation tool......sex. She thought sex was the answer for everything. It did not work....Travis still wanted out and he wanted her out of his life for good imo and I think he told her just that once again but maybe this time in an outburst of anger when a victim has just had all they can tolerate.
Her plan came together when she manipulated him into believing she had already left. Once again Travis could relax again or so he thought. She then gets him hemmed up in the one area where there was no way out except toward her and the knife she held.
He died a horrible death and imo she couldnt have been more thrilled that in the end she had won.
IMO