Rerelease Courtney and The Intimidating Abuser

On this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, Courtney shares her story of surviving an intimidating abuser. What began as a relationship that felt exciting, protective, and full of possibility slowly became a life shaped by coercive control, blame, fear, sexual coercion, physical intimidation, and post-separation abuse. As the relationship escalated, Courtney found herself trapped in no-win situations, isolated from parts of her support system, and constantly adapting to someone who needed power, dominance, and control. Even after the marriage ended, the abuse did not. It continued through custody battles, manipulation, harassment, and the emotional toll placed on their children. It’s a story about vulnerability, respect, coercive control, escalation points, blame, fear, sexual coercion, physical intimidation, post-separation abuse, no-win situations, isolation, custody battles, manipulation, harassment, custody, divorce, family court abuse, emotional abuse, verbal abuse, blame shifting, gaslighting, stonewalling, silent treatment, monitoring, control over finances, eroding autonomy, respect as control, abuse by proxy, children exposed to abuse, exit planning, and healing. CONTENT WARNING - We discuss sexual coercion and physical violence/intimidation in this episode. Click if you want to be a guest on our survivor story podcast , please send us an email at narcissistapocalypse@pm.me Click on the title to read about Coercive Control as Care: Signs & Patterns Sign up to our Domestic Violence Newsletter Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Rerelease Courtney and The Intimidating Abuser is an episode from Narcissist Apocalypse by Abuse Survivor Network.

This episode is 01:10:47 long.

This episode was published on Apr 15, 2026.

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