On this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, we talk with an abuse survivor named Shannon, and Shannon was married to a covert abuser with addiction issues. It's a story of generational trauma, values, mirroring, physical abuse, and the healing process. Welcome to Narcissist Apocalypse, everyone.

I am Brandon Chadwick, and with me today, we have Shannon. How are you?

I'm doing well. Thank you, Brandon.

Well, thank you for being here. And if you want to be a guest on our show like Shannon is today, please do go to our website at Narcissistapocalypse.com. Top of the page, there's a button that says guest form. When you click on that button, it takes you to our guest form page. Please do read all of the instructions and either send us an email at narcissist apocclosate gmail.com or fill out our guest form and press the

submit button and today you're going to hear shannon's story a big trigger warning on this episode

as we will be discussing physical abuse in graphic detail.

So if this is too much for you, please do turn this episode off now. And this story you are about to

hear is a little bit different from other stories. And that's because Shannon was in a relationship with

this person for a while before things started to become abusive. And this person was able to

keep things covert for a very, very long time, and then their addiction reared its ugly head.

And when that happened, you really got to see

what was under the roof of this person and more things eventually came to light about how they

were actually feeling. And it's a really interesting story. And unfortunately, Shannon had to go through

all of this. But she's here today to tell her story, and she's going to help a lot of people by doing so.

So without further ado, Shannon, the floor is now yours.

Thank you.

I was thinking about the name of your podcast, and I was thinking about my son.

And I was wondering if I would have raised him and he would have grown up in poverty and

neglect and abuse and never had love if I wasn't able if I was working all the time

and he just was didn't have his need met and um he kept everything inside and he became

deathly sick and one day he just snaps on a nurse and kills her. And that nurse ends up being your, your baby girl.

Brandon, what would you do?

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