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Podcast: Narcissist Apocalypse: Patterns of Abuse
Episode: Rerelease | Jenna Lee & The Controlling Firefighter
Description: In this re-release episode of Narcissist Apocalypse, Brandon talks with Jenna Lee about her relationship with a firefighter who built trust quickly and used it just as fast. What began with connection, vulnerability, and future plans slowly shifted into control, pressure, destabilization, and confusion.
Jenna Lee shares how mirroring, intensity, cognitive dissonance, and emotional overwhelm made it hard to see what was happening in real time—and how small moments began to change the direction of the relationship long before it ended.
It's a a story about trust, fear, obligation, guilt, shame, mirroring, future faking, lo...