Rerelease | Francesca & The Jealous Controlling Abuser

Narcissist Apocalypse: Patterns of Abuse

Abuse Survivor Network

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

4.7 • 792 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2026

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

In this re-release of Narcissist Apocalypse, we revisit Francesca’s story — a relationship that began with intense charm, attention, and grand romantic gestures, but slowly transformed into something far more dangerous. This is a story of coercive control in its most extreme form — where isolation, intimidation, and psychological manipulation created a reality that felt impossible to escape. As the abuse escalated into physical violence, Francesca was forced to confront the truth of what was happening and find a way out.

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0:00.0	On this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, we talk with an abuse survivor named Francesca,
0:08.2	and Francesca was in a four-year relationship with a jealous, controlling abuser.
0:13.0	It's a story of boundary testing, loyalty, conditioning, extreme stalking, and living in a prison. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. Brandon Chadwick, and with me today, we have Francesca. How are you?
0:53.4	I'm good. How are you? I am doing well. Thank you for being here.
0:59.1	And if you want to be a guest like Francesca is today, please do go to our website at
1:02.9	Narcissistapocalypse.com. Click on the guest form button at the top of the page. Fill out our
1:10.0	guest form and we will go from there also we have a
1:13.5	newsletter a new newsletter at our website so if you want to join our newsletter you get a free workbook
1:17.9	from future episodes when you join our newsletter every single week so that is also at narsestapocalypse
1:25.9	dot com and if you want to join our support groups, which
1:28.7	have Zoom meetings every Wednesday night, Thursday afternoons, and Saturday nights, it is also
1:32.9	at Narcissistapocalypse.com. You can sign up there. And today you're going to hear a re-release
1:39.3	of Francesca's story. And we have done our best just to really fix up the sound because it was recorded
1:46.0	such a long time ago. And the sound at the time was not the best. So we cleaned it up as best we could.
1:51.7	I think the sound is way better than it was. So for people that don't like to listen to episodes
1:57.1	where the sound could be a little bit off, this re-release will be very helpful for you.
2:02.4	And as I said, in the intro, you know, Francesca was really living in an extreme coercive control,
2:09.9	conditioning to get her there. And a lot of fear that was going on in this and the love bombing really brought her in at the
2:19.4	beginning. So again, a big thank you to Francesca for being here years ago. And again,
2:25.7	here today's. So now I'm just going to get out of my way and your way. Francesca, the floor
2:31.6	is now yours.
2:36.3	Okay. So in August of 2015, I had just been separated from my husband of about eight years.
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