There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish

by Anna Akbari

He knocked me down, only to create an opportunity for him to pick up the pieces. It felt icky. The emotional drama was taking a toll.

That was what Ethan’s brand of psychological abuse did to her: It slowly, gradually deteriorated her to a point where she found herself accepting things that would’ve seemed unthinkable a year prior. Before meeting Ethan, she was practical and calm. But Ethan plucked away her sanity, one thread at a time, weaving in enough humiliating incidents that she couldn’t fathom sharing any of it with another person.