387: What if your partner accused you of attempted murder?
This Is Actually Happening
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4.6 • 10.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
When a man is falsely accused of attempted murder by the woman he’s spent years trying to save, he’s forced to confront the lifelong patterns of self-abandonment that led him there.
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Producers: Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits
Content/Trigger Warnings: Childhood emotional abuse, Childhood neglect, Parental physical abuse, Family trauma, Addiction and substance abuse, Psychiatric crisis / mental health emergency, Domestic Violence Allegations, False accusations of violence, Arrest and incarceration, Threats of violence in jail, Financial exploitation, Trauma bonding / self-abandonment, Emotional manipulation, Legal trauma, PTSD and hypervigilance, explicit language
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| 0:00.0 | Wondry Plus subscribers can listen to exclusive episodes of This Is Actually Happening |
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| 0:09.6 | This Is Actually Happening features real experiences that often include traumatic events. |
| 0:13.9 | Please consult the show notes for specific content warnings on each episode |
| 0:17.0 | and for more information about support services. To this day, I'm still grappling with how can someone that you love dearly and tried to give everything, just turn around and betray you like it was nothing. |
| 0:44.0 | From Wondery, I'm Witt Misseldine. |
| 0:51.5 | You're listening to This Is Actually Happening. |
| 0:58.1 | Yeah. Misseldine. You're listening to This Is Actually Happening. Episode 387. |
| 1:02.1 | What if your partner accused you of attempted murder? |
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