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

and McKenzie was married to a fault-finding coercive controller.

It's a story of isolation, fear, obligation, guilt, shame, survival mode, and freedom.

Welcome to Narcissist Apocalypse, everyone.

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

How are you?

I'm doing very well.

Thank you.

Well, thank you for being here today. And if you want to be a guest like McKenzie, go to our website at narsisistapocalypse.com, click on the guest form link at the top of the page, fill out the form, or just email us at Narcissist Apocalypse at p.m.m.m. also, we have a newsletter now at our website.

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So go to our website and sign up to that today or just click on the link in our show notes.

And there is a content warning for this episode as we do discuss physical abuse of a child in

this episode. So that is your content warning for today. And this episode was recorded a long time ago

and it was lost and now it is found. And I did my best to get the audio to be decent. So there

might be a little bit of a hum. You might hear of electricity,

but it is much better than what it was before. And today, McKenzie's story, you're going to hear

it. You'll hear about a 27-year marriage course of control from early on and some shame keeping

her there at the beginning, beliefs, belief systems, and then survival

mode.

And I think she'll validate so many of you out there.

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