Welcome to Narcissist Apocalypse, everyone. I am Brandon Chadwick, and this is a follow-up episode

to the Survivor story we had with Christina, and in this episode we will be discussing key themes

and the fear, obligation, guilt, and shame of Christina's story.

But first, if anyone wants to be on our Survivor Story episodes, go to our website,

at Narcissistapocalypse.com, click on the guest form, fill out the form, press the submit

button, and we'll go from there. Also, we have a support group

at our website at Narcissistapocalypse.com. And we have Zoom meetings every Wednesday night,

Thursday afternoons, and Saturday nights. And we have forum boards for you to post on the

validation you need from survivors just like you. And that is all at Narcissistapocalypse.com.

And for Christina's story, for anyone who did not hear Christina's story, we'll do a little

brief overview right now.

Christina grew up pretty quickly.

You know, her father died when she was young.

She was a little bit parentified by her mom, and she became someone who wanted

stability in her life. And she did well in school, and she got a good job after school. She

gained stability, and that was a big thing for her. And in her first relationships, you know,

she took a little blame for what was going on in

it. She stayed a little past the expiration dates as she just didn't know how to break up. And then

eventually when she met her ex, it moved quickly. He was very worldly and he felt stable. And they

got along easily early on and in some specific aspects throughout this relationship as well.

As they had the same taste, he also brought in this kind of false intimacy with his father dying to move things really quickly.

As I mentioned, Christina's dad also passed away young and this gave this relationship a lot of weight and urgency right from the start. And then the first crack starts

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