Fan Favorite - "One Foot Out the Door"

[gentle music] Around 9:30 AM on June 16th, 2010, a 29-year-old woman named Lynelle Barsock lay in bed in her house in Palmdale, California.

It was a Wednesday, and Lynelle had the day off from her job at a health center in Los Angeles.

But she didn't really have time to relax because she was also a college student.

She was working on becoming a registered nurse, and she knew she had to get up and go study, but she just didn't feel like it.

Plus, she could hear her boyfriend Lewis moving around in the kitchen downstairs, and just knowing Lewis was down there was another reason to stay put.

So Lynelle and Lewis had been together for about four years.

They'd met in college and immediately hit it off.

Now they own this house together, a five-bedroom home that they had scraped together all their savings to make a down payment on.

At the beginning of their relationship, Lynelle and Lewis had been completely in love and on the same page about building a life together.

But over time, Lewis had become this incredibly jealous and possessive person that was just really volatile, and it really just kind of scared Lynelle and was beginning to drive her away.

And then just a few months ago, they'd gotten into this huge screaming fight when he had heard her talking to another guy on the phone.

That fight had gotten so bad that she had tried to drive away, but Lewis had literally chased her in his truck, which led to both of them crashing.

Even now, as she laid in bed months later, Lynelle still felt traumatized by that whole thing.

They had eventually made up, but it was hard to look at Lewis in the same way.

It was like she couldn't see a future with him anymore.

All she saw now was this volatile, controlling guy.

And so lately, Lynelle was seriously considering ending things with him.

But just then, Lynelle's phone buzzed on the nightstand, interrupting her thoughts.

It was a message from her friend Lorraine asking if she was up, and as soon as she saw it, Lynelle just kind of sighed because she actually had forgotten that she had plans with Lorraine, who had offered to do Lynelle's hair that day.

So resigned, she texted Lorraine to come on over, then Lynelle got out of bed.

About 30 minutes later, Lynelle sat on a bar stool and ate breakfast at the kitchen island with Lewis.

The stools were actually some of the only furniture in the whole house.

It had already been a year since they'd moved in, but Lynelle so far had not had time to decorate.

As she ate, Lynelle tried to keep her chitchat with Lewis to a minimum.

They'd been fighting so much lately that she didn't want to accidentally start an argument.