Valeria & The Critical Selfish Narcissist | Narcissistic Abuse

Narcissist Apocalypse: Patterns of Abuse

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🗓️ 12 August 2024

⏱️ 83 minutes

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In this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, Valeria shares her story of marrying a man who wanted to be a team, only to discover that the team never existed. While Valeria was attending school or working, she did everything, taking care of their three kids and the home. And when Valeria asked for help? She was criticized for having needs and feelings. However, things started to change when Valeria began to thrive in her career, finally knocking her husband off his pedestal and seeing him for who he truly was - a selfish critical narcissist. If you want to be a guest on our survivor story podcast, please click here or send us an email at [email protected] To help out our podcast, please fill out our listener survey, click here. PODCAST RECOMMENDATIONS: Perfect Prey With Dr. Christine Cocchiola | Click Here The Covert Narcissism Podcast | Click Here Something Was Wrong | Click Here When Dating Hurts Podcast | Click Here If you or someone you know are experiencing abuse, you are not alone. DomesticShelters.org offers an extensive library of articles and resources that can help you make sense of what you're experiencing, connect you with local resources and find ways to heal and move forward. Visit www.domesticshelters.org to access this free resource. If you need help moving due to domestic violence, Shelter Movers may be able to help you. They operate by referral. Clients may be referred by any person of authority (social worker, doctor, police, crisis counselor, teacher, etc.) or public agency (shelter, hospital, school, workplace, place of worship, sexual assault centre, etc.). To reach them, click here. Join our new Community Social Network at https://community.narcissistapocalypse.com/ Join our Instagram Channel at https://www.instagram.com/narcissistapocalypse Join our Youtube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpTIgjTqVJa4caNWMIAJllA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	On this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, we talk with an abuse survivor named Valeria,
0:08.3	and Valeria was married to a critical, selfish narcissist.
0:12.5	It's a story of pedestals, double standards, being good enough, minimization, depression,
0:19.9	infidelity, and being set up to fail. Welcome to Narcissist Apocalypse, everyone.
0:45.0	I am Brandon Chadwick, and with me today, we have Valeria.
0:51.6	How are you?
0:53.7	Good. Thank you. Well, thank you, Valeria. How are you? Good. Thank you. Well, thank you, Valeria, for being here with us today.
1:00.3	And if you want to be a guest like Valeria is today, please do go to our website at
1:04.5	Narcissistapocalypse.com and click the guest form button at the top of the page. There,
1:09.5	you can read all of our instructions. And please read them all, and either send us
1:12.9	an email at Narcissist Apocalypse at gmail.com or fill out our guest form and press
1:17.9	the submit button, and please do send it in the format that we ask for.
1:22.6	And there is no content warning for today's Survivor's story, And today you're going to hear Valeria's story.
1:30.8	And Valeria gave her life to support her husband, take care of the kids, take care of the home.
1:37.4	And once Valeria started to blossom in her career, she began to see that her ex really never saw her as an equal. And that is a
1:46.9	really tough thing to come to terms with. So a big thank you to Valeria for being here. And now I'm
1:53.8	going to get out of my way and your way. Valeria, the floor is now yours.
2:06.5	So I was raised in a loving family in Brazil.
2:10.2	My parents celebrated this year their fifth wedding anniversary.
2:14.3	And I always thought that marriage was for life.
2:25.1	I'm the youngest of three girls. and it comes my brother after me. And we always were very much focused in education and getting good grades to do whatever we wanted later.
2:35.3	And I always did very well in school.
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