AL.d
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"Safer" is kinda the wrong framing. She was feeling more comfortable doing all that with them, than ever doing it with MC. Which is still twisted and as hurtful as it gets.Not really sure she felt safer with strangers, at first she didn't even see other guys, it started with drinking, but didn't help, then she went on with drugs, that seemed to help, along that path she met Mia, who herself had a twisted evil mind due her past, and Mia want experience what sex was like by using Lacey to do all those things, without she had to do it, Lacey still at lapses where she wanted to commit suicide even during what Mia did. So I doubt she felt safer. But yes in the last lesson from Mia to the mc there was a peroid where Lacey felt enjoying sex with those strangers, so geuss there was a small peroid she felt better. But Mia must have hated it and brought Isaac in it and worked again on Lacey's self destruction. So for that I dislike Mia alot and can't understand they could still be friends, from outsider i could still forgive Mia and understand she's not entirely a bad girl, but what she done is wrong on all levels and should seek herself therapist guidance to see her doing was wrong.
Lacey was broken long before college and Mia. From all we know about her from her college adventures and some of the shit she is doing afterwards, she has associated attention/validation with a very toxic cocktail. That cocktail being sex + shame + self loathing = validation. All those are consistent with vulnerable narcissism, a disorder heavily associated with childhood trauma, which she exhibits many traits from. And the reason for that association is not hard to guess. Children need validation from their parents. Considering what was happening to her as a child, it's very easy to see how that association formed.
What Mia managed to do, was redirect that association from her childhood experiences, to random college jocks. Who were now giving her the toxic cocktail she needed.
MC was doomed from the start, Lacey would have never done anything with him if college had never happened. He could not provide what she had been conditioned to look for.