Lewis & The Possessive Physical Abuser | Domestic Violence

Narcissist Apocalypse: Patterns of Abuse

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Self-improvement, Education, Society & Culture, Relationships

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🗓️ 7 April 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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In this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, Lewis shares his experience of witnessing domestic violence growing up, surviving domestic violence in an early relationship, and navigating his sexual identity. It's a story of possessiveness, intergenerational trauma, sexuality, LGBTQ+ issues, shame, fear, support, physical abuse, racial identity, advocacy, and authenticity. *** CONTENT WARNING - This episode discusses Physical Abuse. *** If you want to be a guest on our survivor story podcast, please click here or send us an email at [email protected] To help out our podcast, please fill out our listener survey, click here. PODCAST RECOMMENDATIONS: Perfect Prey With Dr. Christine Cocchiola | Click Here The Covert Narcissism Podcast | Click Here Something Was Wrong | Click Here When Dating Hurts Podcast | Click Here 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	On this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, we talk with an abuse survivor name Lewis, and Lewis was in a relationship with a physical abuser.
0:10.4	It's a story of control, violence, love, being your authentic self, and realizations.
0:39.5	Welcome to Narcissist Apocalypse, everyone.
0:44.9	I am Brandon Chadwick, and with me today, we have Lewis.
0:45.9	How are you?
1:12.4	Well, thank you for being here, and if you want to be a guest like Lewis is today, please do go to our website at Narcissistapocalypse.com and click on the guest form button at the top of the page. There you can read all of our instructions and please read them all and send us an email at Narcissist Apocalypse at gmail.com or fill out our guest form and press the submit button and please do send it in the format that we ask for. And we do have a content warning for this
1:18.3	episode as we do discuss physical abuse in this story. So that is our content warning for today.
1:24.8	And today you're going to hear Lewis's story. And today's story is not told
1:28.4	in a conventional way as usual. We do jump around a bit. And we started to talk about where
1:34.1	their former partner came from, the struggle of being a member of the LGBTQ plus community,
1:41.2	but not being fully out in understanding what the abuser might have gone through. It's not being done to create excuses, but not being fully out in understanding what the abuser might have gone through.
1:45.9	It's not being done to create excuses, but more to just show that someone could have
1:50.4	dealt with this conflict in a different way, talking things out and not in a physical manner,
1:55.8	especially if they discuss what's going on and inside them instead.
2:00.3	So a big thank you to Lewis for being here today,
2:03.0	and now I'm going to get out of my way and your way.
2:05.9	Lewis, the floor, is now yours.
2:11.2	Thank you so much.
2:13.2	Well, I just wanted to start off by saying that I am an older gentleman, but going back to the childhood
2:24.8	years, it's quite a few years.
2:27.7	So starting off, I was born and raised in Ohio in a small town and primarily raised by my mom, who was a single mother.
2:42.1	And my grandparents were heavily involved in my upbringing as well. My maternal grandparents, my biological father was not involved, and I spent a lot of time
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