Rerelease | Faith & The Charismatic Controlling Abuser

Narcissist Apocalypse: Patterns of Abuse

Abuse Survivor Network

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

4.7 • 791 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2026

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

On this episode re-release of Narcissist Apocalypse, Faith shares her story of reconnecting with a charismatic man from her past who drew her in with charm, attention, and promises of a future together. Over time, the relationship became a world of emotional manipulation, isolation, surveillance, and control. It’s a story of hidden recorders, tracking devices, disappearing independence, coercive control, manipulation, emotional abuse, surveillance, isolation, future faking, love bombing, ghosting, fear of abandonment, low self-worth, trauma bonds, the silent treatment, rage, devaluation, gaslighting, blame shifting, financial control, dependency, control disguised as care, walking on eggshells, intimidation, threats, single motherhood, shame, guilt, and figuring out why we stay.

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0:00.0	On this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, we talk with an abuse survivor named Faith,
0:07.6	and Faith was in a controlling relationship with a charismatic abuser.
0:11.5	It's a story of self-worth, emotional manipulation, hidden recorders, tracking devices, and figuring out why we stay. Welcome to Narcissist Apocalypse, everyone. I am Brandon Chadwick, and with me today, we have Faith. How are you?
0:53.0	I'm good, thanks. How are you?
0:55.1	I am doing well, and thank you so much for being here with us today. And if you want to be a
1:01.3	guest like Faith is today, go to our website at Narcissistapocalypse.com, click on our guest
1:06.7	form button, fill out the form, and press the submit button. Also, we have a support group at our
1:13.4	website. We have Zoom meetings every Wednesday night, Thursday afternoons, and Saturday nights.
1:18.3	And we have forum boards for you to post on as well. And we also have a newsletter at
1:23.5	Narcissistapocalypse.com. And you also get a free workbook for every new survivor story
1:29.5	with that newsletter. And that is all at Narcissistapocalypse.com. And today we do have a content
1:36.3	warning as we do discuss physical abuse, physical assault, and we do that graphically as well as
1:42.0	homicide threats in this episode.
1:44.7	And this is an older episode.
1:46.6	This is a re-release and I did my best to fix up the sound.
1:50.3	Everything else remained untouched.
1:52.1	The only difference is tomorrow there will be a follow-up episode to this old episode
1:56.8	that goes in depth on the patterns.
1:58.8	And that's the only new thing when it comes to this episode.
2:02.6	And today we are going to hear Faith Story and Faith reconnected with a man from college who
2:08.3	had once ghosted her. And he came back very charming, attentive, and, you know, full of certainty.
2:14.6	He pulled her in and he made big promises and he future faked and he
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