Welcome to Narcissist Apocalypse, everyone. I am Brandon Chadwick, and today we are doing an educational follow-up to Justin's Survivor Story and to understand it a little better.

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And getting back to Justin, Justin's episode wasn't just about like one moment.

It was about his relationship that moved quickly where commitment, marriage, and

parenthood happened before he really had a chance to fully understand the dynamic that he was

inside of.

And what began with promise and partnership slowly became something else. And it was defined by

shifting expectations, financial instability, emotional imbalance, and the quiet erosion of

trust in himself. And in this episode, I'm going to go through some core themes. We are going to be talking

about the fewer obligation and guilt and shame that Justin had to live with in this episode.

We're going to do our analogy like we always do. And for those of you that didn't listen to

Justin's episode yet, you can always listen to

Justin's episode, but to give you more context than what I just said.

Justin shared his experience of entering a relationship with his second wife that quickly

progressed into engagement, marriage, parenthood.

And from early on,

Justin noticed moments that left him really uncertain. Didn't know if these were overreactions.

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