Felix & The Love-Bombing Long-Distance Abuser

Narcissist Apocalypse: Patterns of Abuse

Abuse Survivor Network

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

4.7 • 796 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2026

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, Felix shares the story of a long-distance relationship that began like a once-in-a-lifetime romance and slowly became controlling, destabilizing, and physically abusive. What initially felt like fate was reinforced through intense declarations of love, marriage plans, international travel, matching rituals, and promises of a shared future. Over time, Felix found himself managing his partner’s emotions, proving his commitment, sacrificing parts of his own life, and trying to solve problems that kept changing shape. Felix discusses love bombing, future faking, digital monitoring, emotional double standards, HIV-related shame, blame shifting, physical violence, strangulation, and the way apparent accountability pulled him back into the relationship. He also reflects on how the mythology of their love story kept replacing real repair, and how his body recognized the danger before he was fully ready to accept it.

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0:00.0	On this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, we talk with an abuse survivor named Felix,
0:06.9	and Felix was in a long-distance relationship with a minimizing abuser.
0:11.8	It's a story of fate, lies, double standards, intermittent reinforcement, and deflection.
0:44.3	Music and reinforcement and deflection. Welcome to Narcissist Apocalypse, everyone.
0:49.6	I am Brandon Chadwick, and with me today, we have Felix.
0:50.7	How are you?
0:52.0	I'm doing great.
0:52.5	How are you, Brandon?
1:14.7	I am doing well. Thank you for asking. And if you want to be a guest like Felix is today, please do go to our website at Narcissistapocalypse.com. Fill out our guest form. Press the submit button and we will go from there. We also have a support group at our website where we have Zoom meetings every Wednesday, nights, Thursday afternoon, and Saturday nights. So if you need support, join our support group today. And we also have a newsletter at our website where you get a free workbook for every new Survivor Story episode.
1:20.3	And that is all at Narcissistapocalypse.com. And today we do have a content warning as we do
1:26.3	discuss physical abuse in this episode.
1:29.3	And also there were some sound issues with this episode.
1:31.8	So you might hear some inconsistent sound here and there.
1:34.9	My apology for that.
1:37.1	And today you're going to hear Felix's story.
1:39.2	And Felix was in a long distance relationship where immediately it felt like it was meant to be. There was fate
1:45.9	involved. And that idea of fate and these grand days and grand gestures when they were together
1:50.8	really felt like the best feeling that there could be. However, volatility and red flags were
1:56.7	popping up. It started to pop up. But this was always repaired by this idea of fate once they were
2:03.0	in each other's presence, again, only to become volatile quickly after that. And these cycles just
2:08.6	continued. And I know Felix will validate so many of you out here today. So a big thank you
2:14.6	to Felix for being here once again. And now I'm going to get out of my way,
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