Controlling

That’s where she handed me a stack of cash outside her car. To a passerby, it probably looked like a drug deal. But the kind of “escape” Diane desperately wanted was different. She needed my help to plan a long-awaited getaway from her husband. “He controls the finances ― always has ― and looks at every penny I spend,” she told me when we first chatted on the phone. “He also has…