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Thank you. want to share their stories. So thank you for partnering with us. I've recently started a webinar series in order to further provide resources to those who have

been harmed by cultic control as well as help their loved ones better understand their

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which will focus on explaining the many reasons and circumstances that keep people trapped

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Here now is the premiere of that series entitled, Why Did I Stay?

Hey, everyone. I wanted to be able to talk to you today about why people stay in bad

situations for way too long. There are so many reasons. And I make this video so that you can have a sense about how normal it is

for you to be doing this, how normal it is for the people who you love and care about to be doing

this, to be staying in a situation that is uncomfortable, that might even be abusive for such a long time, and you really wonder

why it is that it's happening. So let's go over some of the reasons. I'm talking, first of all,

about a whole variety of situations. It is a relationship with a malignant narcissist, someone who has taken over,

the other person, someone who has taken you over, someone whose emotions matter more than yours,

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