Mae & The Dangerous Controlling Abuser | Domestic Violence & Narcissistic Abuse

Narcissist Apocalypse: Patterns of Abuse

Abuse Survivor Network

Society & Culture, Relationships, True Crime, Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2025

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, Mae shares her journey as a survivor of domestic violence and narcissistic abuse. She describes the early red flags, including love bombing, control, and isolation. Despite initial displays of love and support, her husband's behavior deteriorated, becoming marked by physical violence, emotional abuse, and financial manipulation. Key incidents included a New Year's Eve attack and a bar altercation, which led to his incarceration for assault and domestic violence. Despite his arrest, Mae's divorce was complicated by his enabling family's support and legal maneuvers. It's a story of physical abuse, sexual coercion, emotional abuse, financial manipulation, love bombing, control, isolation, threats, enabling in-laws, trust, support, child abuse, coping strategies, codependency, false imprisonment, family court, divorce, and custody. *** CONTENT WARNING - We discuss physical abuse and sexual coercion in this episode. *** If you want to be a guest on our survivor story podcast, please ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠click here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or send us an email at [email protected] To buy Mae's book, click here. To read our most recent blog post, click on the title - 8 Ways Validation Can Heal After Narcissistic Abuse.

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0:00.0	On this episode of a narcissist apocalypse, we talk with an abuse survivor named May,
0:07.2	and May was married to a physical, emotional, and financial abuser.
0:12.4	It's a story of love bombing, control, isolation, threats, sexual coercion, family court, divorce, and custody.
0:44.6	Welcome. Welcome to Narcissist Apocalypse, everyone.
0:50.2	I am Brandon Chadwick, and with me today, we have May.
0:51.1	How are you?
0:53.0	I'm great. How are you?
0:58.1	I am doing well, and thank you for asking, and thank you for being here.
1:03.4	And if you want to be a guest like May is today, please do go to our website at Narcissistapocalypse.com and click on the guest form button at the top of the page.
1:06.7	There you can read all of our instructions, and please read them all.
1:10.0	And either send us an email at Narcissist Apocalypse at p.m.m.m. or fill out our guest form and press the submit button.
1:18.4	And we do have a content warning for this episode, as we do discuss physical abuse and sexual coercion in this episode.
1:25.3	And today you're going to hear May's story. And May was married to
1:28.5	someone whose bad behavior just began to get worse. And despite, you know, her abuser's
1:35.4	initial love and support, the relationship was marked by physical violence and emotional abuse
1:40.6	and financial manipulation. And May went through a lot. And today she's going to
1:46.5	validate your experience too. And now I'm going to get out of my way and your way. May,
1:52.2	the floor is now yours. Thank you so much for having me and for letting me tell this story.
2:00.0	One of the things that I have learned
2:02.4	the hard way is how bad things grow and fester in silence when we don't talk about things. So
2:10.1	I have taken the last few years to try to really empower myself and hopefully other people to get loud
2:21.1	about their experiences, share them from a very basic level of helping people realize that they
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