Vicky the Scapegoat & The Family Business Betrayal

Narcissist Apocalypse: Patterns of Abuse

Abuse Survivor Network

Relationships, Society & Culture, Education, Self-improvement, True Crime

4.7 • 796 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, Vicky shares how she became the scapegoat in a family shaped by favoritism, transactional love, psychological abuse, and silence. Her mother controlled the household through humiliation, mind games, and physical aggression, while her father repeatedly failed to protect her. Meanwhile, Vicky’s brother was treated as the golden child, protected from accountability, and given opportunities she had spent years working toward. Despite everything, Vicky remained loyal and eventually returned to work at the family business, hoping she would finally be trusted to take it over. Instead, she was denied training, physically attacked, and betrayed when her brother was brought back despite her clearly stated boundaries. After a confrontation turned violent, Vicky was fired and ordered to leave, forcing her to face the painful reality that her father had once again chosen the family system over her.

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0:00.0	On this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, we talk with an abuse survivor named Vicky,
0:07.3	and Vicki grew up as the family scapegoat.
0:10.8	It's a story of enabling, transactional love, psychological abuse, toxic family roles, physical abuse, and betrayal. Welcome to Narcissist Apocalypse, everyone.
0:44.1	I am Brandon Chattwick, and with me today, we have Vicky.
0:49.2	How are you?
0:50.7	I'm good.
0:51.2	How are you?
0:52.2	I am doing well.
0:53.8	Thank you for asking. And if you want to be a guest like
0:56.5	Vicki is today, please do go to our website at Narcissistapocalypse.com. Fill out our guest form and we
1:03.3	will go from there. Also at our website, we have a support group with Zoom meetings every Wednesday
1:08.6	nights, Thursday afternoons, and Saturday nights.
1:11.4	And we also have a newsletter at our website as well, where you get a free reflection workbook
1:16.3	for every new survivor story, and that is a weekly newsletter, all at Narcissistapocalypse.com.
1:23.1	And we do have a content warning for this episode as we do discuss physical abuse in this
1:28.3	episode.
1:29.0	And today you're going to hear Vicky's story.
1:31.2	And it's a sad story as Vicky is no longer in contact with her family.
1:36.5	And Vicky lived in a family system where she was the scapegoat.
1:39.8	She was scapegoated by her mother.
1:41.9	And for her whole life, though, she was still able to interact with everyone.
1:45.2	But eventually, the enabling couldn't be tolerated anymore after a big waterfall moment.
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