My goodness you summarised the experience so perfectly - the key was my complete lack of experience with people in general and men in particular... ie and my assumption that people are generally decent and honest...

Yes... the effort to express is self-clarifying and reading article son Medium is such a boon ! Also, funnily enough, watching Judge Judy regularly showed me the patterns of how trusting people get taken advantage of... but I also learnt stuff like 'if you give something as a birthday resent, you are not supposed to take it back when you are angry !!!