Lora & The Manipulative Financial Abuser | Domestic Violence & Narcissistic Abuse

Narcissist Apocalypse: Patterns of Abuse

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🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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In this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, Brandon talks with Lora about her marriage to a manipulative financial abuser. At 32, Lora met her ex-husband online, he seemed intelligent and ambitious, however, Lora would soon find out that her was also abusive. He became the truth teller in her world, only to isolate her from friends and family. When they got married, he took control of Lora's finances, and racked up significant debt in her name. And despite filing for divorce in 2022, Lora's legal battles and financial struggles continue. It's a story of love bombing, religious values, gaslighting, isolation, putdowns, entitlement, sexual coercion, financial abuse, legal battles, shame, blame, and self worth. *** CONTENT WARNING - This episode discusses 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] 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 named Laura,
0:07.3	and Laura was married to a manipulative financial abuser.
0:12.3	It's a story of love bombing, religious values, gaslighting, isolation Downs, and Entitlement.
0:51.6	Welcome. Welcome to Narcissist Apocalypse, everyone. I am Brandon Chadwick, and with me today, we have Laura. How are you?
0:53.5	I'm fine. Well, thank you for being here. And if you want to be a guest
0:58.1	like Laura is today, please do go to our website at Narcissistapocalypse.com and click the guest
1:04.5	form button at the top of the page. There you can read all of our instructions. And please read them
1:09.9	all and either 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.
1:20.8	And we do have a content warning for this episode, as we do discuss sexual coercion in this story.
1:26.2	So that is your content warning for today.
1:29.7	And today you're going to hear Laura's story and Laura's ex just wasn't emotionally abusive and sexually abusive.
1:36.2	They also left her in financial ruin. And I'm sure many of you out there have experienced the same thing.
1:43.4	So a big thank you to Laura for being here with us today to validate so many of you.
1:49.3	And now I'm going to get out of my way and your way.
1:52.5	Laura, the floor is now yours.
1:58.1	Okay.
1:58.6	So just a little bit about my background. I was born and raised in a small town. I would say that I was raised upper middle class. Both of my parents were college educated. And I had a reasonably, I guess, what she would call normal upbringing.
2:22.8	My parents divorced when I was in sixth grade, and I don't really remember all the details.
2:32.0	I do know that my dad was an alcoholic, and that contributed significantly to the dysfunction in the house.
2:38.1	When they divorced, my mother was a teacher,
2:42.2	and my dad had a career.
2:43.5	He made more money,
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