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On this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, we talk with an abuse survivor named Lauren, and

Lauren was married to a criticizing

serial cheater.

It's a story of isolation, double lives, bullying, and betrayal trauma.

Music Welcome to Narcissist Apocalypse, everyone. I am Brandon Chadwick and with me today, we have

Lauren. How are you? I'm fine, thanks, Brandon. Well, thank you for being here. And if you

want to be a guest on our show like Lauren is today,

please do go to our website at Narcissistapocalypse.com. At top of the page, there's a button that says

guest form. When you click on that button, it takes you to our guest form page. There you can read

all of our instructions and either send us an email at Narcissistapocalypse 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 today you're going to hear Lauren's story.

And with Lauren's story, it takes a long time for the abuse to unfold because of what is going on behind the scenes with her abuser.

Her abuser didn't want things to be known, so it took a very long time for these things to actually show themselves.

And when they do, things really start to fall apart.

So a really big thank you to

Lauren for being here with us today. There is no content warning for our episode today. So now

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