His Eyes Were Black

I Survived

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Talk Radio

3.2 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Lynda is still healing from a difficult divorce when she meets a new man online. Their romance fizzles fast, but when the man calls Lynda in desperate need of help, she is lured into his trap. Sponsors: Bombas: Go to Bombas.com/survived and use code survived for twenty percent off your first purchase. PDS Debt: Right now, PDS Debt is offering a free debt analysis. It only takes thirty seconds. Head over to pdsdebt.com/survived to get your free debt assessment today. Huggies: Get your baby’s butt into Huggies best fitting diaper! Huggies Little Movers. We got you, baby. Apartments: Visit Apartments.com, the place to find a place. Progressive: Multitask right now. Quote your car insurance at Progressive.com to join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive.

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Huggy's Little Movers.
0:03.3	Get your baby's butt into Huggy's Best Fitting Dipper.
0:06.5	Huggy's Little Movers. We gotcha, baby.
0:09.1	Hi, I'm Caitlin Van Mall, host of I survived.
0:12.8	We are so proud of this show.
0:14.4	We wanted to relaunch season one
0:16.1	to hopefully find new audiences for these stories.
0:18.6	This episode is Linda.
0:20.0	What I learned from Linda's story
0:21.4	is that recovery can be a long journey.
0:23.6	It isn't that you just go to therapy for an amount of time and a bell rings and then you're
0:27.3	cured.
0:28.3	It's more of a road you walk for as long as you need to and one that might not have an end. But Linda is still trying and that's something to be proud of. This is episode 14. His eyes were black.
0:39.0	I guess now I try to pay attention to any red flags.
0:47.0	I need to pay attention to my gut feelings
0:50.5	because it was all there, the red flags, my anxiety, my gut feelings, the warning signs, they were there.
0:59.0	But in my state of being depressed and lonely, I was willing to overlook all that and make excuses and think, well, it's just this, or he's really a nice person.
1:15.0	Linda grew up in Wisconsin and was still living there in 2007.
1:20.0	She was married and working as a veterinary surgeon, but things weren't exactly perfect.
1:27.0	So at that time in my life I had recently, well I had gotten married to someone I thought was the perfect person for me.
1:37.1	We met online, believe it or not. You know, we had a really good relationship and I thought we were going to be together forever and but there was a lot of
1:47.0	extra
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