Escaping a Controlling Altruistic Abuser: Tori's Story - Domestic Violence, Narcissist Abuse, Cult Abuse

Narcissist Apocalypse: Patterns of Abuse

Abuse Survivor Network

Society & Culture, True Crime, Self-improvement, Relationships, Education

4.7 • 791 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2023

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Join us as we welcome abuse survivor Tori to share her powerful story of growing up in an unstable home, a cult-like church, and eventually marrying an altruistic abuser. Through her journey, Tori uncovers how her tumultuous childhood and exposure to a cult-like atmosphere shaped her relationships and the person she chose to marry. Tori offers valuable insights into recognizing red flags, navigating abusive relationships, and finding the strength to break free. Listen in as Tori reveals the cult-like tendencies of a church organization she joined, including food and sleep deprivation, control, and manipulation. She also shares her experience of falling in love with her altruistic abuser, who promised her the idealized future she always wanted, but instead led her through a marriage filled with chaos, infidelity, and emotional abuse. If you want to be a guest on our survivor story podcast, please click here or send us an email at narcissistapocalypse@gmail.com To listen to the groundbreaking investigative true crime podcast about Munchausen by Proxy, NOBODY SHOULD BELIEVE ME, click here. Thank you to our sponsor BETTERHELP. If you need online counseling from anywhere in the world, please do go to https://www.betterhelp.com/nap Get started today and enjoy 10% off your first month. If you or someone you know are experiencing abuse, you are not alone. DomesticShelters.org offers an extensive library of articles and resources that can help you make sense of what you're experiencing, connect you with local resources and find ways to heal and move forward. Visit www.domesticshelters.org to access this free resource. Join our new Community Social Network at https://community.narcissistapocalypse.com/ Join our Instagram Channel at https://www.instagram.com/narcissistapocalypse Join our Youtube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpTIgjTqVJa4caNWMIAJllA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:22.6	On this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, we talk with an abuse survivor named Tori, and Tori was married to a controlling, altruistic abuser.
0:36.0	It's a story of future faking, idealization, cults,
0:40.9	proving yourself, chaos, and grief. Welcome to Narcissist Apocalypse, everyone.
1:07.7	I am Brandon Chadwick, and with me today we have Tori. How are you? Doing great. Thanks. Thanks for having me on.
1:18.8	Well, thank you for being here. And if you want to be a guest like Tori is today, please do go to our website at
1:26.4	Narcissistapocalypse.com. Top of the page, there is a button
1:30.0	that says guest form, and when you click on that button, it takes you to our guest form page.
1:34.6	There you can read all of our instructions and either send us an email at Narcissist Apocalypse
1:38.3	at gmail.com or fill out our guest form and press the submit button, and please do send it
1:43.2	in the format that we ask for.
1:45.1	And today we're going to hear Tori's story, which is about her experience in a marriage with an
1:50.0	altruistic abuser.
1:51.7	But we do spend time as well explaining the cult background, which Tori came from.
1:56.6	She was also inadvertently involved in a cult while on a mission.
2:00.6	And there is no content
2:02.7	warning for this episode either. So there's no content warning for this episode. And now I'm
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