In Episode 10 of After the Quiet, I share what happened when I was accepted into a university program three and a half hours from home — and how my growth became a threat in a controlling relationship. This episode explores education as a source of conflict, family involvement, guilt around ambition, and the exhaustion of being allowed to move forward only with conditions. A reflective look at coercive control, emotional abuse, and how independence is often framed as danger rather than possibility.