On this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, we talk with an abuse survivor named Pippa, and Pippa was married to a minimizing abuser.

It's a story of checked boxes, conforming, infidelity, exhaustion, legal abuse, and fighting back.

Music legal abuse, and fighting back. Welcome to Narcissist Apocalypse, everyone. I am Brandon Chadwick, and with me today, we have PIPA. How are you? I'm very well. Thank you. Well, thank you for being here, Pippa. And if you want to be a guest on our show like Pippa is today, please do go to our website at Narcissistapocalypse.com. 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. And there you can read all of our instructions 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. And there is no content warning for today's episode.

And today you are going to hear Pippa's story. And Pippa's story has a lot to do with

minimizing everything that is going on in the home, especially when you're dealing with someone

who's as skilled as a lawyer is. And then with the legal abuse that occurred in the aftermath of

everything. And when someone can go pro se and really just take

advantage of the system, we really haven't had many episodes or any episodes like this at all

when talking about a lawyer that is doing this to you. So a big thank you to Pippa for being

here today. And I'm going to get out of my way and your way. Pippa,

the floor is now yours. Well, I really appreciate being able to do this with you today.

I contacted you because it's really important to me to get this story out and I've listened to a lot

of your podcasts and there's so many,

they're all very familiar. I understand most of them, but one thing that I think I can bring

to the table, which is not only was my ex a narcissist, he had a law degree. And I think that

adds a whole other dimension to my story. So I will just start off with

giving you a little bit of my background. It was the youngest of four girls. The two oldest were my

half-sisters. My mother was married, was divorced, and then married my father and had my sister

and me. We all sort of were under the same roof, got along as one family.

My mother was an artist, and my father was a fairly well-respected doctor in town. So we had a very

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