What Was Happening Inside Maggie Murdaugh’s Brain the Night She Drove to Moselle

After years of managing someone’s moods and keeping the peace, compliance can become so automatic that you cannot override it — even when every instinct is telling you something is wrong. Two witnesses testified that Maggie Murdaugh did not want to drive to Moselle on June 7, 2021. She went because she was asked.

This is the final installment of a three-part conversation with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott about why intelligent people stay and what happens when they finally try to go. The research is specific: the danger spikes during separation. The abuser’s threat calculus changes the moment control slips. And the people around the victim almost never see it clearly enough to intervene.

Scott, drawing on her recent writing in Spotlight on Psychology, talks Tony Brueski through the practical reality of safety planning and closes with a direct message to the women in this audience who have already decided to leave and believe the worst is behind them.

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