260: What if your husband claimed you were dead?
This Is Actually Happening
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4.6 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
After a chaotic upbringing ending with her parents’ divorce, a woman falls into the hands of a man whose promises are too good to be true.
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| 0:08.5 | This is actually happening features real experiences that often include traumatic events. |
| 0:12.8 | Please consult the show notes for specific content warnings on each episode |
| 0:16.2 | and for more information about support services. |
| 0:18.5 | It's more scary to think I'm sleeping at bed with someone who is blatantly lying about |
| 0:33.8 | their entire life to me than to say that's not true. |
| 0:49.9 | From Wondry, I'm Whit Missildine. |
| 0:53.1 | You are listening to this is actually happening. |
| 1:02.6 | In episode 260, what if your husband claimed you were dead? |
| 1:25.6 | My father was given up for adoption in the early 60s by two teen parents and he was adopted |
| 1:31.1 | into a very loving family that loved him very much and treated him just like their other |
| 1:36.6 | children. |
| 1:37.6 | However, it was a volatile household because his adoptive mother suffered with mental |
| 1:43.5 | health issues. |
| 1:44.5 | So he saw her go in and out of mental health facilities. |
| 1:47.7 | He certainly was afflicted by these issues and it affected him well into his adult life. |
| 1:54.0 | When my father was 16, he met my mother and she was about 14 years old. |
| 1:58.8 | My mother was born a twin and her twin sadly died at birth. |
| 2:03.8 | She was not aware that she had a twin that had died but she always felt so that she had |
| 2:08.3 | a missing piece. |
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