Rerelease | Cara & The Rage-Filled Physical Abuser

Narcissist Apocalypse: Patterns of Abuse

Abuse Survivor Network

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

4.7 • 796 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In this rerelease episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, Cara shares her story of surviving a four-year relationship with a rage-filled physical abuser. After leaving a long emotionally abusive marriage, Cara was pulled into a relationship that began with love bombing, constant praise, and the feeling of finally being seen. But over time, the relationship became a cycle of fear, isolation, trauma bonding, suicide threats, physical intimidation, and emotional caretaking. Cara discusses the confusion of recognizing physical abuse when the harm was escalating in increments, how her abuser’s rage and threats kept her trapped in a caretaker role, and how embarrassment pushed her into living a double life. She also shares how the cycle of abuse became familiar, how hopelessness took over, and how telling the truth to trusted friends became the first step toward leaving.

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0:00.0	On this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, we talk with an abuse survivor named Kara,
0:08.0	and Kara was in a four-year relationship with a physical abuser.
0:11.4	It destroyed of intergenerational trauma, suicide threats, trauma bonds, cycles of abuse,
0:19.3	embarrassment, and being kind to yourself.
0:45.3	Well, Welcome to Narcissist Apocalypse, everyone.
0:52.1	I am Brandon Chadwick, and with me today, we have Kara.
0:53.0	How are you?
0:59.8	I'm doing good. Thanks for having me. Well, thank you for being here with us today,
1:05.2	Kara. And if you want to be a guest like Kara 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
1:11.8	you to our guest form page. There you can read all of our instructions and either send us an
1:16.6	email at Narcissist Apocalypse at gmail.com or fill out our guest form and press the submit
1:22.0	button in, please do send it in the format that we ask for. And we have a content warning for this episode as we do
1:30.3	discuss physical abuse, suicide threats, and suicidal ideation in this episode. So that is your
1:38.2	content warning for this episode. And today you are going to hear Kara's story and it was a four-year relationship that had incremental abuse over time.
1:48.9	You know, this story is about the confusion of the type of physical abuse that is going on.
1:54.4	Was it physical abuse?
1:55.9	Is it physical abuse?
1:57.4	And the embarrassment of being in this relationship and living essentially a double life
2:03.5	so others don't know what's going on.
2:07.1	And it's also about the cycles of abuse and recognizing the cycles of abuse.
2:12.6	So just a really big thank you to Kara for being here.
2:17.3	And now I'm going to get out of my way
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