Welcome to Narcissist Apocalypse, everyone.

I am Brandon Chadwick, and today we'll be doing a debrief on Avery's Survivor's story,

and we will be doing key takeaways in the things that I want for Avery going forward.

But before we get to that, if you have not

listened to Avery's story yet, now we'll do a brief summary for those who have not heard it.

Avery grew up with a biological father who was very unreliable and largely absent throughout

her whole entire childhood. Her mother had been a teenage parent and then later experienced a lot of mental health

issues and Avery learned to take care of herself at a very young age and was not getting her

needs met at all by her parents.

And as an adult, Avery did have a healthy long-term relationship, which gave her

an example of what a healthy partnership could look like. And then after that relationship

ended, she took time for herself away from dating and just tried to make sure that she was

really emotionally prepared before beginning another relationship. But then Avery met the abuser that she was

going to get into a relationship with. He was funny. He was attentive and he was constantly

communicating with her. He presented himself as someone who had been hurt and wanted love,

wanted a family, and wanted stability.

And he said that they were soulmates and appeared really interested in everything that mattered

to Avery.

And that was a huge hook.

And with that hook in, that's when actions and words stopped matching.

There were triangulating ex's, calling them unstable,

but still talking with them and engaging with them. And then other incidents began, you know,

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