Coming out of the shadows to say....
I think it is essential that JM really, really walks the jury through the timeline of the relationship. An outsider peeking into defense testimony would come away with the impression that JA & TA had a ten year live-in relationship where he controlled her and she fell "victim" to his evil ways. Even though the jury knows better, the way in which the defense crawls along and makes such a big deal out of every single word TA ever uttered can imprint in a jurors mind and get them feeling as if the relationship was longer than it actually was. I mean geez, the time that they were "officially a couple" was only a handful of months. Look at all the photo's that SHE took with his friends so clearly he wasn't shunning her, he just wasn't telling the full extent of the physical relationship.
So anyway, I think Juan really needs to work to overcome the subliminal idea that the relationship was longer and more formal that it ever was.