Rerelease | Erika & The Abuser Who Controlled Everything

Narcissist Apocalypse: Patterns of Abuse

Abuse Survivor Network

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

4.7 • 791 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2026

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

In this rerelease episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, Brandon talks with Erika about growing up inside religious conditioning that taught her to submit, stay quiet, and see her worth through being a wife and mother. After losing her family and community as a young adult, Erika entered relationships where she kept trying to build safety, stability, and family, even while being worn down by neglect, pressure, and control. Her second marriage became the center of this story. Erika shares how coercive control showed up through financial abuse, sexual coercion, intimidation, weapons, surveillance, isolation, legal abuse, and post-separation abuse. She also talks about dissociation, the shock of realizing how much danger she had been living in, and the crisis center moment that helped her finally name what was happening.

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0:00.0	On this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, we talk with an abuse survivor named Erica, and Erica was married to a coercive controller.
0:10.2	It's a story of dissociation, language, puzzle pieces, financial abuse, and self-discovery.
0:35.1	Music. and self-discovery. Welcome to Narcissist Apocalypse, everyone.
0:40.8	I am Brandon Chadwick and with me today, we have Erica.
0:47.4	How are you?
0:49.0	I'm great.
0:50.0	How are you?
0:51.3	I am doing well and thank you so much for being here. And if you want to be a guest like Erica 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. Please do read all of the instructions and either send us an email at Narcissist Apocalypse at gmail.com or fill out our guest form. And please do read all of the instructions and either send us an email at Narcissistapocalypse
1:10.8	at gmail.com or fill out our guest form. And please do read all of the instructions and send it
1:16.7	in the format that we ask for. And today we are going to hear Erica's story and a trigger
1:23.7	warning for this episode. We do discuss sexual coercion in this episode, as well as
1:28.9	animal abuse. So if this is not for you, please do turn the episode off now. And also in today's
1:37.3	story, you are going to hear two different abuse stories, but the second story that you're
1:43.0	going to hear is the main story of Erica's story that you're going to hear is the main story of
1:47.2	Erica's story that we're going to be concentrating on, but it's important to hear the first
1:51.8	story as well. And Erica's story is also, in a way, kind of still going on because there's
1:57.9	post-separation abuse that is constantly happening.
2:02.0	So I really want to thank Erica for being a guest on our show once again.
2:10.1	And I'm going to get out of my way and your way.
2:13.5	Erica, the floor is now yours.
2:17.6	Well, thanks for having me.
2:18.9	I really appreciate it.
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