Journey from Darkness: Citrine's Tale of Survival from a Controlling Abusive Relationship

Narcissist Apocalypse: Patterns of Abuse

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🗓️ 10 July 2023

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Citrine shares her journey as an abuse survivor who endured and ultimately escaped a toxic, manipulative relationship. Listen in as Citrine explores the psychological manipulation she experienced, the early red flags she overlooked, and how her former partners stories left her feeling confused and unbalanced. Citrine's discusses the erosion of her boundaries, her former partners attempts to control her, and the strain it placed on her relationship with her family. Plus, Citrine shares the challenges she faced due to her partner's verbal abuse, infidelity, gaslighting, isolation, her unhealthy relationship with resilience, perfectionism, people pleasing, and much more. *** CONTENT WARNING - Sexual coercion is discussed in this episode. *** 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. If you need help moving due to domestic violence, Shelter Movers may be able to help you. They operate by referral. Clients may be referred by any person of authority (social worker, doctor, police, crisis counselor, teacher, etc.) or public agency (shelter, hospital, school, workplace, place of worship, sexual assault centre, etc.). To reach them, click here. 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

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0:00.0	On this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, we talk with an abuse survivor named Citrine,
0:08.1	and Satrine was married to a controlling abuser.
0:11.9	It's a story of people-pleasing, victim-playing, isolation, lies, and manipulation.
0:36.1	Music lies and manipulation. Welcome to Narcissist Apocalypse, everyone.
0:41.3	I am Brandon Chadwick, and with me today, we have Satrine.
0:47.0	How are you?
0:48.6	I'm good.
0:49.4	I am doing good.
0:50.7	How are you?
0:51.5	I am doing well.
0:53.5	Thank you for asking. And if you want to be a guest like
0:56.9	Satrine is today, please do go to our website at Narcissistapocalypse.com. Top of the page, there's a
1:03.0	button that says guest form. When you click on that button, it takes you to our guest form page.
1:06.8	There you can read all of our instructions and either send us an email at Narcissistapocalypse.g.com
1:12.2	or fill out our guest form and press the submit button. And please do send it in the format that we
1:17.0	ask for. And today you're going to hear Satrine's story and there's a content warning for this
1:22.4	episode. We do discuss sexual coercion very briefly in this episode. So there is your content warning
1:28.8	right there. And I really want to thank Satrine for being here with us today because her story,
1:35.5	there's a lot of little nuances you're going to hear today. And it's very difficult to tell a story
1:40.7	like this with all these little nuances. and Satrine is here to really validate
1:45.7	all of those things for you today. So a big thank you to Satrine. And now I'm going to get
1:50.6	out of my way and your way. Satrine, the floor is now yours. Thank you. Thanks, Brandon. Okay. So I guess, I mean, firstly, I do want to say just a big thank you for having me. And this has taken a couple of goes, but it's really exciting to be here and to be able to share my experience. I do want to say that I've been listening to your podcast for quite some time, and it was so
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