S13 Ep2: [Amelia] Your House is on Fire
Something Was Wrong
Broken Cycle Media
4.1 • 24.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2022
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
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This week, survivor Amelia shares the second half of her story. *Content warning: Today’s episode discusses Substance Use Disorder, emotional and physical violence and arson.
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| 0:00.0 | Something Was Wrong is intended for mature audiences. Episodes discuss topics that can be upsetting, |
| 0:06.2 | such as emotional, physical, and sexual violence, suicide, and murder. If you're in need of support, |
| 0:12.4 | please visit Something Was Wrong.com slash resources for a list of non-profit organizations that can help. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm not a therapist or a doctor. |
| 0:24.1 | Most names have been changed for anonymity purposes. |
| 0:29.9 | Opinions expressed by guests on the show are their own and do not necessarily represent my views. |
| 0:34.1 | Resources and source material are linked in the episode notes. |
| 0:35.8 | Thank you so much for listening. |
| 0:55.0 | You think you know me, you don't know me well. episode notes. Thank you so much for listening. You don't know me You don't know You don't know anybody |
| 1:00.0 | Until you talk to someone someone. |
| 1:21.3 | So I went and met with a divorce attorney who I actually found by way of one of the people in my continuing care group and shared with him kind of what was going on. |
| 1:25.9 | I wanted to start the process. |
| 1:27.0 | And he gave me |
| 1:28.7 | the checklist of everything that you need to put in order to do the filing. And I worked on that |
| 1:35.3 | paperwork like my life depended on it. I think I got all of the documents, all the financial |
| 1:39.9 | documents, everything that he asked for, like within 24 hours, because I just wanted it done. |
| 1:45.8 | We were still living together. He didn't know that I was filing for divorce, but he certainly |
| 1:50.5 | knew things were not good. We were at this point living very parallel lives. He was in the guest |
| 1:56.4 | room. I was in our room. And I started becoming increasingly scared of him. In addition to not sleeping and |
| 2:03.8 | disappearing, he started to become more paranoid, not just with me, but with life in general. Weird |
| 2:09.8 | things would start happening. He decided that he needed a very expensive sports car that I begged |
| 2:15.8 | him not to buy because we didn't have the means for him to buy it, |
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