Lennon & Maybe This Is What Love Is - Domestic Violence, Narcissist Abuse, Financial Abuse, Emotional Abuse

Narcissist Apocalypse: Patterns of Abuse

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🗓️ 10 October 2022

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Lennon met her future husband at a rooftop bar. He was intelligent, driven, strong, and seemingly steady. However, as soon as their relationship became romantic, controlling behavior emerged. And once they were married, the coercive control ramped up, leaving Lennon and her kids in a financially abusive prison. It's a story of sexual coercion, people pleasing, trust building, guilt trips, nitpicking, put downs, blaming, threats, intimidation, what love isn’t, gaslighting, self gaslighting, escape plans, financial abuse, isolation, trust building, love bombing, micro managing, vulnerability, and much more. *** TRIGGER WARNING - This episode discusses graphic sexual coercion. *** If you want to be a guest on our survivor story podcast, please click here or send us an email at [email protected] 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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0:25.6	On this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, we talk with an abuse survivor named Lennon, and Lennon was in a controlling relationship with a sexually coercive financial abuser.
0:38.3	It's a story of people-pleasing, trust-building, guilt trips, nitpicking, threats, intimidation,
0:46.4	and what love isn't. Welcome to Narcissist Apocalypse, everyone. I am Brandon Chadwick and with me today we have Lenin. How are you?
1:19.6	I'm good things. How are you doing? I am doing well and thank you so much for being here with us today. And if you want to be a guest,
1:29.5	like Lenin is today, please do go to our website at Narcissistapocalypse.com. Top of the page,
1:34.9	there's a button that says guest form. When you click on that button, it takes you to our
1:38.7	guest form page. There, you'll see all of these instructions. Please read them all and then send
1:43.9	us an email at
1:44.7	Narcissistapocalypse at gmail.com or fill out our guest form and press the submit button.
1:49.9	And we can never have enough stories. So please do send in your stories today. And today
1:57.1	we are going to hear Lenin's story. And Lenin was with someone who was very controlling and it's
2:04.0	one of those stories where things start off where I don't know if really abuse is going on and then
2:10.4	things start to escalate and they escalate and they escalate and then all of a sudden things are
2:16.9	completely different from when your
2:19.4	relationship started. And I just really want to thank you for being here. You're going to help
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