On this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, we talk with an abuse survivor named Pierre,

and Pierre was in a relationship with a psychologically manipulative abuser.

It's a story of intermittent reinforcement, put downs, excuses, losing your identity, and control.

Music losing your identity and control. Welcome to Narcissist Apocalypse, everyone.

I am Brandon Chadwick, and with me today, we have Pierre.

How are you?

Thank you very much.

Thank you for being here.

And if you want to be a guest like Pierre is today, please do go to our website at Narcissistapocalypse.com, click on the guest form button, fill it out, and press the submit button.

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And we have a newsletter at Narcissistapocalypse.com.

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All of this is at Narcissistapocalypse.com.

And there is no content warning for today. And this episode is an older episode. It's one of the first episodes that we ever did. And we did our best to clean up this recording as much as possible. Get rid of a lot of rambling, remove a lot of me interrupting in these early days in this episode.

And we did our best to clean up the sound.

English wasn't the first language for Pierre.

So we did our best to clean that up a little bit too and work with that a little.

And there was also a baby that was allowed sometimes in this original episode.

And we've done our best to remove the baby as much as possible as well.

And now I think it's a little shorter, but I think it's much cleaner and better than it was.

And today you're going to hear Pierre's story once again, or for the first time. And Pierre was in a relationship where

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