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

We'll be doing the key takeaways as well as the fear, obligation, guilt, and shame of Terry's story.

And we do have a content warning for today as we do discuss physical

abuse in this story on a number of occasions. And that is your content warning for today.

And now we'll get into a summary of Terry's story for those of you who have not heard it yet.

Terry was married early in her life to

someone that she had met when she was a teenager. They raised children. They built the home.

And lived a pretty fairly traditional life. And as that marriage began to unravel, Terry met a

personal trainer at the boxing gym who ended up being her

abuser. He was charismatic, he was very attentive to her, and he was very persistent. He made

her feel noticed during a period of time when she was grieving and lacking confidence

and feeling less needed by the people around her.

And this person pursued Terry even after she initially resisted.

And he treated her refusal as something he could just wear down rather than a boundary that really needed to be respected.

But eventually Terry gives in.

And once this relationship began, then he helped transform her body.

He helped her enter the fitness industry.

He gave her advice.

And while she is getting help from him, he is also getting help from her.

So he's getting emotional support from her.

He's regularly needing errands run in a lot of favors.

So at this point, their relationship starts to begin, like feeling like a team. That's what it feels like it's going on here. But at the same time, he's starting to separate Terry from other

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