Surviving Toxic Relationships Podcast with The Matadoras
Surviving Toxic Relationships is a faith based podcast for women who are ready to break free from toxic, emotionally abusive, or narcissistic relationships and step into healing, clarity, and truth.
Deana and Lizzie are two women whose lives unexpectedly crossed when they were married to the SAME manipulative, cheating, financially abusive partner.
Their combined passion is to provide women with the tools to avoid, escape, or heal from toxic, harmful, or confusing relationships.
If you’ve been searching for faith based wisdom that goes deeper than surface-level advice, this show is for you. We talk honestly about trauma, emotional wounds, spiritual confusion, and the process of rebuilding your identity through faith.
Our esteemed guests consist of Therapists, Authors, Doctors, and Survivors. Together, we explore topics that include self-discovery and healing, narcissistic abuse, boundaries, discernment, and learning to hear God’s voice clearly in relationships.
Whether you’re trying to avoid early red flags, are in the middle of a toxic relationship, or recovering from one, this emotional and spiritual healing podcast offers real conversations, practical insight, and biblical encouragement to help you move forward into hope, restoration, self worth, and renewal.
Remember beautiful friends: You are not alone, You are not crazy, and You are deeply, deeply loved.
Deana & Lizzie
Surviving Toxic Relationships Podcast with The Matadoras
Episode #105: Financial Abuse Red Flags Every Women Needs to Spot Before Leaving a Toxic Relationship!
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Many women do not realize they are experiencing financial abuse until they try to leave the relationship and suddenly discover they have no access to accounts, damaged credit, overwhelming debt, or no safe financial path forward.
In this deeply personal conversation, Lizzie and Deana discuss the hidden red flags of financial abuse inside toxic relationships, including:
- financial control and surveillance
- hidden debt and secret credit cards
- shame around spending money
- being monitored through banking apps and technology
- losing access to passwords and accounts
- bankruptcy, damaged credit, and starting over
- fear of leaving because of finances
- gray divorce and midlife financial abuse
- rebuilding after financial devastation
- practical wisdom for creating a safe financial exit plan
Both Lizzie and Deana share personal experiences of financial abuse, bankruptcy, damaged credit, and the emotional toll that financial control takes on women trying to survive toxic relationships.
We also discuss the difference between healthy financial hardship and financial abuse, and why emotional safety, accountability, and transparency matter deeply in healthy relationships.
If money has been used to shame you, monitor you, silence you, or control you, we want you to know that you are not weak, and your future is not over.
Scripture:
Galatians 5:1 — “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.”
Because you are not alone.
You are not crazy.
And you are deeply loved.
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