This week's listener grew up in a narcissistic evangelical family where religion was used to justify fear, control and abuse.
As the eldest child, she became a high-achiever, believing that self-sacrifice and obedience were the keys to love and acceptance.
Decades later, after her sister disclosed childhood sexual abuse by their father, everything changed.
Therapy, reporting her own abuse and finally leaving her own coercive and abusive marriage brought freedom—but also devastating loss when another sister chose to defend the perpetrator instead.
Katie and Ruth explore why some siblings remain loyal to abusive parents.
How narcissistic family systems operate like cults.
And why so many survivors unknowingly repeat abusive patterns in adulthood.
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