Welcome to Narcissist Apocalypse, everyone.

I am Brandon Chadwick, and today we are going to be discussing guilt and what your partner

made you feel guilty for and how that kept you in the relationship.

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So today we are going to be discussing guilt.

We discuss fear, obligation, guilt, and shame a lot on the show.

But today we're just going to be a little bit more focused on guilt, the different types of guilt, and how that kept you in the relationship.

And by the end of this episode, you'll understand why leaving is so much more

complicated than it looks from the outside world to the person who says, why didn't they,

they just leave. So, and we're going to look at specific categories of guilt, uh, that tend to

emerge in these toxic relationships, abusive relationships, and how each one functions psychologically

and how they can collectively create a system that keeps people, abuse victims, abuse survivors,

in their place.

So part one, what guilt is actually doing in these abusive relationships. So before we get into any

specific categories here, it's really worth understanding here what guilt is designed to do and what

happens when it gets activated in these types of relationships. So guilt in healthy relationships,

it functions as a signal.

You've done something that violated your own values or caused harm to someone that you care about.

So that prompts repair.

So in this instance, it is useful.

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