I have to spend a lot of time in counseling to learn about the cycle of abuse and how well it mapped to what I experienced. That abusers weren’t asshole all the time. Once there’s an incident they enter the honeymoon period where they become -very- sweet.
Morning glory are a flower named as much because their blooms open in the morning and are closed by the afternoon. There is however a variety of morning glory that only opens at night called the ‘Moonflower’.