Rerelease: Megan & The Smear Campaigning Abuser

Narcissist Apocalypse: Patterns of Abuse

Abuse Survivor Network

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

4.8 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, Megan's survivor story pulls back the curtain on the harsh realities of coping with physical and emotional abuse, as well as navigating the murky waters of post-separation abuse. Megan experienced smear campaigns, putdowns, physical abuse, gaslighting, psychological control tactics, and the use of her daughter as a tool of manipulation. Plus, Megan explores the complexities and frustrations of co-parenting with a manipulative abuser.

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0:00.0	On this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, we talk with an abuse survivor named Megan,
0:06.5	and Megan was in a relationship with a smear campaigning abuser.
0:10.8	It's a story of isolation, physical abuse, put-downs, using children as weapons, and post-separation, abuse.
0:49.6	Music and post-separation abuse. Welcome to Narcissist Apocalypse, everyone. I am Brandon Chadwick and with me today we have Megan. How are you?
0:53.6	I'm very well. Thank you. Thank you for having me.
0:57.3	Well, thank you for being here.
1:01.7	And if you want to be a guest like Megan is today, please do go to our website at Narcissistapocalypse.com.
1:04.1	Top of the page, there's a button that says guest form.
1:06.6	When you click on that button, it takes you to our guest form page.
1:09.5	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.
1:20.8	And today, you are going to hear Megan's story and a content warning for this episode as we do discuss physical abuse in this
1:30.7	episode. So that is a content warning for everyone. And today you're going to hear Megan's
1:37.7	story. And this story is on the shorter end of the stories that we do tell, but it's very compact and there's a lot of information in here.
1:48.0	I know Megan's story is going to help a lot of people recognizing abuse that is going on, but also when it comes to the post-separation abuse, especially if you have a child, there will be a lot of little nittyitty gritty nuance things in there to really validate your
2:02.9	experience. So I really can't thank Megan enough for being here. So now I'm going to get out of
2:09.5	my way and your way. Megan, the floor is now yours.
2:26.6	I wanted to talk about my experience of being in a relationship with my ex-husband.
2:36.3	It's kind of interesting because you don't really see somebody for what they are until, you know, a while after.
2:39.9	And then by then it's kind of in too deep.
2:41.9	You've gone too far.
2:44.0	You have a wedding planned.
2:48.1	And then eventually you have a child with them.
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