
Why Didn’t I Leave the Narcissist Sooner?
Why didn’t I leave the narcissist sooner? It’s the question people always ask. It’s the question I used to ask myself. It was only after enough time had passed without sustained contact with him that I began to truly understand how poisoned I had really become. My mind began to clear slowly and I understand more each day how all this came to be. First, there’s the setup. Relationships with narcissists escalate very quickly, unnaturally even, through a process called love-bombing. Two months after we met, he was asking me to marry him. He hadn’t even seen the inside of my...