cover of episode 221: What if you were addicted to each other?

221: What if you were addicted to each other?

2022/2/8
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The speaker recounts her early life, including her parents' tumultuous relationship and her own experiences with abuse, which shaped her understanding of love and relationships.

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“All that stuff I went through, the abuse, the physical, verbal, everything was not rock bottom for me….Me realizing that I was being abusive to people I loved, that was my rock bottom.”

 

**Producers: **Whit Missildine, Jason Blalock

 

Episode Summary: A woman struggles to free herself from the catastrophic consequences of an obsession with a man she cannot leave

 

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**Content/Trigger Warnings: **infant death, domestic violence, graphic domestic abuse, near death, abortion, explicit language

 

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Intro Music: "Illabye" – Tipper

**Music Bed: **“Re-Entry” – Lee Rosevere

 

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