Merle & The Physically Abusive Rambo | Domestic Violence & Narcissistic Abuse

Narcissist Apocalypse: Patterns of Abuse

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🗓️ 23 September 2024

⏱️ 102 minutes

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In this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, Merle shares her scary story of survival at the hands of a physically abusive narcissist. Merle's partner presented himself as everything she wanted. He was helpful, kind, attentive, and everyone seemed to love him. However, when Merle moved in with him, things changed quickly. The nice guy was gone, and only a jealous physical abuser remained. It's a story of manipulation, sexual assault, physical abuse, suicidal ideation, boundary pushing, jealousy, AA, rage, support, triangulation, blame shifting, ptsd, abandonment, guilt, fear, obligation, trauma bonds, mental health, excuses, depression, shame, isolation, and addiction. *** CONTENT WARNING - This episode discusses, physical abuse, sexual assault, and suicidal ideation *** 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 Merle,
0:07.8	and Merle was in a physically abusive relationship with a controlling Rambo.
0:12.6	It's a story of trauma bonds, jealousy, the fog, AA, triangulation, and stalking. Welcome to Narcissist Apocalypse, everyone.
0:44.6	I am Brandon Chadwick, and with me today, we have Merle.
0:49.7	How are you?
0:51.2	I'm good.
0:51.9	How are you doing?
0:52.9	I'm doing well. Thank you for asking. And if you want to be a
0:57.1	guest like Merle is today, please do go to our website at Narcissistapocalypse.com and click on the
1:03.6	guest form button that is at the top of the page. There you can read all of our instructions.
1:08.0	And please read them all and either send us an email at Narcissistapocalypse
1:11.8	at gmail.com, or fill out the guest form and press to submit button, and please do send it
1:17.5	in the format that we ask for. And there is a content warning for this episode, as we do
1:23.3	graphically discuss physical abuse, sexual assault, and suicidal ideation. So that is your
1:29.2	content warning for today. And also today a slight warning on some background noise or some
1:35.0	people that don't like some background noise due to an upstairs neighbor above Merle. They
1:39.4	might be rolling around on a chair here and there. I think I tried to cut most of it out,
1:44.1	but I wasn't able to get all of it out, but I wasn't
1:44.6	able to get all of it, but that might be there and it might annoy some of you. So please don't
1:49.3	give us a bad review. We couldn't avoid it. And today, you're going to hear Merle's story.
1:57.2	And Merle was in a very scary relationship. And I would consider them to be a rambo on Lundy
2:04.7	Bancroft's abuser types from why does he do that and I can't thank Merle enough
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