Welcome to Narcissist Apocalypse, everyone. I am Brandon Chadwick, and today we'll be doing a debrief

for Jody's story. We'll be doing the key takeaways, the fear, obligation, guilt, and shame,

and the things that we want for her going forward. And before we begin, we do have a

content warning for today as we do discuss physical abuse, threats, and animal abuse in

this debrief. So that is your content warning for today. And for those of you who have not

listened to Jody's story yet, here is a summary for you. So Jody grew up

learning to keep people happy, even at her own expense. She was very loyal and she was a very

empathetic person during her upbringing. And Jody does meet her abuser at 15 when she's younger,

but then re-meets him 30 years later.

And he told her that he moved to her city to help care for his father who had Alzheimer's.

And that turned out to be a lie, the first of many lies.

And eventually they were spending so much time together.

They started dating. And that's time together, they started dating.

And that's when the constant text started happening and the accusations too.

Once being told that she had been flirting with a teenage store clerk, that's the type of accusations that started happening early on.

And from there, the control got worse.

He recorded her phone calls and claimed

a forensic specialist could hear another man in the background. He went through her deleted texts,

her bank statements, her map history, and her Facebook deleting and blocking any man he didn't

approve of. And eventually, Jody offers to take a lie detector test because of all

of this. And she passed this lie detector test only to find out that this would be dismissed by

her abuser saying that she knew how to beat the machine and that he still believed that she was

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