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On this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse Q&A, we talk about the normalization of problematic behavior. Welcome to Narcissist Apocalypse Q&A, everyone.

I am Brandon Chadwick, and today we are going to discuss the normalization of problematic or toxic behavior.

But before we get to that, if you want to be a guest on our Survivor Story episodes, please do go to our website at narcissist apocalypse.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. 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. So today we are going to talk about the normalization

of problematic behavior. So to start it all off, this definition is going to be coming from

the book Out of the Fog by Dana Morningstar. So normalizing problematic behavior is what we do and we try to justify

and minimize or normalized problematic behavior. And we try to convince ourselves that what our

partner is doing is somehow justifiable or workable. And the first sign of problematic behavior is always confusion, and we are

confused not only because we are being manipulated, but because on some level we know what we

are experiencing is a problem, but we don't want to actually believe it. And when it comes to abusive relationships, the normalization

of problematic behavior is meeting some sort of very strong need, either emotional or

physical investment in sting. So if we are lonely or scared to be alone or we are overwhelmed at the thought of, let's say,

being single or starting over, or you might have children with an abuser, this type of change can be

very scary, and that means a lot of shakeup might be going on in your emotional world, in your financial world,

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