Groomed Into an Abusive Relationship — Wednesday’s Story

Narcissist Apocalypse: Patterns of Abuse

Abuse Survivor Network

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

4.7 • 792 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2026

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, Wednesday shares her journey of being groomed into an abusive relationship and the long road toward recognizing manipulation, control, and exploitation. Entering the relationship at a young age, Wednesday was slowly conditioned through attention, affection, and psychological grooming that evolved into isolation, coercive control, and escalating emotional and psychological abuse. What began as seeming care and guidance gradually transformed into domination, fear, and dependency, leaving Wednesday trapped in a cycle of trauma bonding and self-doubt.

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0:00.0	On this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, we talk with an abuse survivor name Wednesday,
0:07.1	and Wednesday was groomed by her college professor.
0:11.3	It's a story of persistence, manipulation, love bombing, gaslighting, rage, control, and Self-Blaim.
0:41.9	Welcome to Narcissist Apocalypse, everyone.
0:47.4	I am Brandon Chadwick, and with me today, we have Wednesday.
0:48.5	How are you?
0:50.4	Not too bad, Ben.
0:51.2	And you?
0:58.4	I am doing well. Thank you for asking. And if you want to be a guest like wednesday is today please do go to our website and click on our guest form at the top of the page at narcissist
1:03.9	apocalypse dot com and either fill out that guest form or just email us at narcissist apocalypse p.m.m.m. also at our website, you can join our
1:15.5	newsletter. We have a newsletter, everyone, and that includes a workbook, a free workbook for this
1:21.6	episode and all episodes that will be coming after this episode, and people who are really finding
1:27.1	our newsletter very useful. It's a valuable episode. And people are really finding our newsletter very useful.
1:29.3	It's a valuable tool.
1:31.2	And it is five things inside that newsletter that you'll find very useful.
1:35.6	And the sixth thing, the extra thing, is a downloadable workbook for this specific episode
1:40.5	and all future episodes.
1:42.3	So go to our website and it's on the front page.
1:44.4	You can sign up to our newsletter or you can just click on the link in our show notes.
1:49.6	It'll take you straight to our sign up page.
1:52.3	And this episode does have a content warning as we do discuss child sexual abuse in this
1:57.1	survivor story as well as adult sexual coercion and sexual assault.
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