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You're in a good place. Now. You are listening to
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Perspectives with Ashley Burgess.
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Welcome back live to liter Ature Life Perspectives, and I'm
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your host, Ashley Burgess. On today's show, I want to
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talk about narcissism, false hope, and how false hope makes
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you more vulnerable in the relationship, more vulnerable to manipulation
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and being triggered. Narcissists are extremely well versed with the
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concept of false hope, giving you the hope believing that
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this relationship is going to be amazing. And I'm not
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just talking about romantic relationships. I'm also talking about family relationship, boss,
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an employee relationship. This can all happen in these types
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of relationships. And the false hope is very important to
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understand because in the process of dealing with false hope,
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we begin to lose ourselves. Now, the narcissist is trying
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to get something from you.
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In the now and the here and now.
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They want something from you right now over a course
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of time. Right makes sense. And in the process of
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wanting something now, they promise you the moon, the stars,
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the galaxy and how amazing it is, and they create
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a different type of reality. And in that process, they
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are able to get you to tell them about your past,
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tell them about your weaknesses. They portray themselves as your hero,
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your savior, whatever. And in the process of creating that
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basically what I would consider false narrative, you begin to
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tell them everything that they want to know. Oh, you
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supply them with all the information that they can later
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use to get supply from you. You supply them with
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the information that they need to manipulate.
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And control you, all not knowing because.
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They appear to be this doting, amazing, caring person that's
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doing this for you. And in the process, as I
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was saying in the previous podcast in seven seventy eight,
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we talked about the narcissists and and and the things
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that they do and the things that they say they
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do to make you feel sorry for them. So, for example,
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I was talking about the false sacrifices, the false sacrifices
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that they Oh, I made all these sacrifices for you.
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I did all this stuff for you.
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Remember when I did this or I did that, you know,
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Remember when I didn't take that job so I could
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help you deal with your you know, your sick puppy,
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or remember when I did this and I didn't do that,
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or I could have taken those trips with my friends
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and I didn't go because you needed my help, or
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I wanted to be there with you. And then later
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on they use all these things to try to create
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this reality that they're there for you, when in reality
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they're really not. And they were using these things because
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most of the time these things were not really real.
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There was no other job, there was no trip, and
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if it was, it wasn't something they wanted to do anyway. Remember,
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the narcissist isn't going to do you know, They're going
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to do what they want to do. They're not just
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going to stop doing what they want to do just
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to help you out. So remember that. That's one of
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the biggest things is the narcissists will always take the bigger,
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better deal. They're not going to do something or sacrifice
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for you. They're only going to sacrifice for you in theory.
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So it's in theory that they're sacrificing. It's it's a
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false flag, false narrative that they are creating. Okay, So
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one of the most interesting things about false hope and
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the narcissists, which I think is interesting, is that they
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fake a future with you to create the illusion that
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they have strong interests, that there's deep emotional ties and
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there's high investment. Okay, and you start believing this hook
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line and sinker that they have invested all this time
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and energy into it, and so you start putting more
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and more of your time and energy into it, thinking
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as though, yes, this is real, but it's really unfortunately not.
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They want to make you believe this.
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They will also feed you lies based on what they
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believe that you want, what they believe that you need,
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what they believe in the situation.
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It's very very powerful. It's very very powerful.
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And that's where I want us to really look at
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as we.
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As we go through this process.
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That's what I want us to look at as we
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go through this process and understand what the false narrative.
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Is exactly. And so that's what it is.
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So they've created this false narrative for you, and they
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have gone through that process with you. You begin to
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believe this narrative. They make you more and more vulnerable.
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And see, the thing is is that when you're future faking,
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when you're future faking, that's the concept. So like you
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are creating this false reality, this false future with a
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lot of illusion of all this stuff working out, lots
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of grandeur, lots of stuff happening. The perception of reality
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is not real. It's distorted. We are facing a reality
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that the narcissist is creating.
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That is not reality.
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But they're creating this to make you feel a certain way.
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They're creating this to make you feel and for you
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to give more and more and more and more. So
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these are always very interesting aspects of the future faking
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and then they create to The interesting part about it
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is like your needs, Like they figure out kind of
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what you need, and then they kind of pray.
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Upon that.
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They pray upon that, and an effort for you to
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believe hook line and sincer that this is the end
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all be all to your life. This is the perfect person,
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this is your soulmate. Now I'm not agreeing across the
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board that every narcissist says, oh my god, let me
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tell you about soulmates, but it's one of the things
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that they use, Oh, I feel like we've known each
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other in a past life. Oh, I think you're my soulmate.
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And they'll use all these little kind of tricks and
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teases and stuff like that to make you believe this
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false reality. Now, this is all fine and dandy, right,
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this is all fine and dandy, but at the same
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point in time, it's one thing for us to hear
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it and go, oh, that's interesting.
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It's another thing for us to believe it. Now.
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A narcissist will go that extra mile, okay in creating
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the false reality, starting with the love bombing, having all
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that love bombing and in the beginning right because and
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then the false sacrifices. See, that's the biggest thing that
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I was talking about in the previous episode, was you
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know that there's all these false sacrifices, fake sacrifices, made
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up stories of the things that they've done to help you, right,
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and how they've made themselves more grandiose, how they've made
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themselves more at your disposal, there to help you. And
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you couldn't have done any of this without them. You know,
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you're literally you know you need them to hold your
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life together. And remember one of the biggest lies that
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they will that they will create within you by their manipulation,
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control and triggering, is to act as though you are
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not special, to act as though they don't need you,
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to act as though you need them, right, because it's
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all about you needing them for their manipulation to work.
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Their manipulation and control doesn't work unless you believe that
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you need them. I know, I'm passionate about this because
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this is some real stuff here, right, This is real
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and this is how they manipulate you to get you
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to do what they want you to do. They're very
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good at it. They're very, very very good at it.
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And so what I'm saying to you is this, as
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long as you begin to see through the fakery, okay,
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And I call this fakery because it is fakery. The
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entire concept of the manipulation is based on fakery, faking reality,
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faking the future, faking what they come to the table with.
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And that is so important too, is because they can
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have this false reality that you meet them with.
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So you meet them and they've created.
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This falsehood of who they are, and it's perfect because
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it probably feeds right into you, know what you're needing
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because of your vulnerability. And see, the thing is is
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that they start asking you questions as they're love bombing you,
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they start asking you questions about your life, and they're
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very kind.
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And they seem very helpful. And you know all and.
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It's like you're, oh, wow, I'm getting all this attention
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and this person really cares about me, and oh my god,
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this is amazing and I haven't felt like this, and YadA, YadA, YadA.
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And in your vulnerable states, and you know what I'm
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talking about, in your vulnerable states, you begin to reveal
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things about yourself that not only can they use later,
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and they will use later to manipulate and control you.
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For sure. Yes, remember that that happens.
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So if you've just entered a relationship and you don't
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know what's up yet, because you won't know for a
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while because the mask doesn't come off for a while,
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hold those things to yourself. Keep things close to your
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chest that still emotionally trigger you with anybody, even in
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a relationship at work or a friendship. I'm telling you,
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I can't harp on this enough. Okay, If you found
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a real friend over time, you'll know it. If you've
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found a real great relationship romantic relationship over time, you
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will know it. But in the first few months, don't
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don't expose yourself with things that you haven't worked through.
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Don't get there. Don't go there. And if you already have.
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For most of you that are listening to this podcast,
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you've already gone there, right, And I understand that that's
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why you're listening, probably more often than not. But if
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you haven't gone there, don't If you have gone there,
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and then continue, you know, continue here, because this is
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where we're going. Because what's happened though, is they made
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you vulnerable because in those times, you share with them
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things that you hadn't shared with other people, and they're
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later on going to use it. But not only are
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they going to use that to manipulate you later and
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to gaslight you and trigger you, and it gets supply.
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First off, they're going to create this illusion of what
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they bring to you, who they are to you, Okay,
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And that's very important understand.
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That's very important understand.
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And you know, I it's interesting because you know, they
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will paint a picture of being, Oh, I'm going to
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eventually be this very powerful lawyer and I can financially
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take care of you. And I know that you have
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your you know, your your your father to take care
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of and your caregiving and and you're having to take
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care of them, and I'm gonna swoop in and then
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financially take care of you, so you can do that.
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So they paint this picture for you. And in the meantime,
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they're not this high powered lawyer. You know, they don't
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even have a job. They haven't even passed the bar yet.
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You see what I'm saying. Or they're there, but we're
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so far away. We haven't even gotten into the educational
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we haven't gotten into.
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That part of school yet. Well, however, we know they've
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created that reality.
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This is gonna happen. This is what I'm gonna do
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for you. This is where I'm gonna be. So in
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the process, you're in a different place. So you start
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giving to them. You start taking care of them, you
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start giving them things, you start paying for things. You
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start doing these things in the immediate situation because you're like, Wow,
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down the road, this is gonna be there and I'm
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gonna have this and this is gonna be great, and
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I've wanted this or I've needed this or whatever. That's
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how this begins, and that's how this begins. And you
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begin to wrap your life around this reality. You begin
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to wrap your life around these situations. You begin to
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wrap your life around it.
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And this is.
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Why I am really emphasizing this because this can only
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hurt you. They will pray upon your needs, pray upon
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your vulnerability, and use that to control you, use that
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to control you at all way, shape and form. And
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that's where it's so important for you to begin to
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realize where you're at, because some of you right now
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might be in the false hope in the future faking.
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So the false hope is all dry by the future faking,
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and the future faking could have just begun for you.
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You could be in day one or future faking. You
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could be in year five of future faking. And depending
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on what you're in, the pain is stronger the longer
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you've been because there's been false hope, false hope, false hope,
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future faking, future faking, future faking compounded against future faking
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on top of other future faking, divided by other you know,
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multiplied by future faking. Where you're at the point where
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it seems like nothing has come true and.
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You've been sitting there waiting holding the bag for years.
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Some of you are just now into a couple of
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days in you're buying into it, you're drinking the kool aid.
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So we're going to be talking about the future faking
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and the false hope. Here, stay tuned Libertrue Life Perspectives
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with your host me, Ashley Burgess, will be back in
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I'll be back this time.
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You know it.