On this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, we talk with an abuse survivor named Austin,

and Austin was in an abusive relationship with a minimizing Mr. Wright.

It's a story of caretaking, burdens, perfectionism, nitpicking, breadcrumbs, and physical abuse.

Welcome. Welcome to Narcissist Apocalypse, everyone.

I am Brandon Chadwick.

And with me today, we have Austin.

How are you? Hi, Brandon. I'm'm good thanks for having me today well thank you for

being here and if you want to be a guest like Austin is today please do go to our website at

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button, it takes you to our guest form page. There, you can read all of our instructions and either

send us an email at Narcissist Apocalypse at gmail.com or fill out our guest form and press

the submit button. And please do send it in the format that we ask for. And today we are going to hear Austin's story and a big

content warning on this story as we do discuss physical abuse in this episode. And I really

just want to thank Austin for being here with us today and telling her story.

And now I'm going to get out of my way and your way.

Austin, the floor, is now yours.

All right, Brandon.

So if we kind of go back in time a little bit,

many moons ago before the relationship, my childhood was normal to me at the time,

but in further analysis, there's things that kind of pop in and make you realize,

okay, you know, that's why I do that or that makes sense.

So if I could describe myself as a kid, even starting there is difficult. I've never really seen myself as a kid.

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