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		Comment on A Letter to the Narcissist Who Destroyed Me by Anonymous five		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anonymous five]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2025 02:53:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://fairytaleshadows.com/the-eight-things-i-would-tell-my-narcissist-ex-if-i-could/comment-page-1/#comment-25472&quot;&gt;Kalan&lt;/a&gt;.

Hi. You can just read it as woman gf, wife, instead of husband.  Read it as something else maybe  instead of wanting people to write it as something else]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://fairytaleshadows.com/the-eight-things-i-would-tell-my-narcissist-ex-if-i-could/comment-page-1/#comment-25472">Kalan</a>.</p>
<p>Hi. You can just read it as woman gf, wife, instead of husband.  Read it as something else maybe  instead of wanting people to write it as something else</p>
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		Comment on Living with a Gaslighter by Helen Puk by Kate		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kate]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Dec 2024 01:36:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		Comment on A Letter to the Narcissist Who Destroyed Me by Dale White		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dale White]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2024 22:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Comments back to a Narcissist are never any good. Narcissist want attention. They don’t care if it’s good or bad, they just care that you recognize them. The best comment to narcissist is simple; no, no, and no. The impact on them is the greatest revenge.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Comments back to a Narcissist are never any good. Narcissist want attention. They don’t care if it’s good or bad, they just care that you recognize them. The best comment to narcissist is simple; no, no, and no. The impact on them is the greatest revenge.</p>
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		Comment on Why Is It So Hard to Get Over a Narcissist? by Caroline		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2024 07:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://fairytaleshadows.com/why-is-it-so-hard-to-get-over-a-narcissist/comment-page-1/#comment-6555&quot;&gt;Cindy&lt;/a&gt;.

I’m so glad you took the time to write your experience down. Mine is almost exactly the same and I haven’t seen such a similar experience.

From blocking the phone for two weeks, then unblocking him so he wouldn’t show up at my door. EXACTLY THE SAME!

Outside of the well-known abuse you wrote about e.g. gaslighting, you made another point that has me stuck with his energy some six months later… the sex! The admiration, the adoring me, desiring me, the amazing physical connection. But, like you, I was a plaything, an object.

The only thing that is keeping me really away is that I found out he raped a woman while we were together. I found this out a month or so after I broke it off for the millionth time. He had raped me many times and showed up in my bedroom etc but there’s that self-doubt of ‘did that happen’ they have so well engrained in us.

Even though he committed such a heinous crime I still sexually yearn for him but also want to punch him in the face… even at the same time. Which is absolutely crazy… yet that’s what they do, they bring out the worst in us.

I find it hard to release his grasp (energy) from my life. I’ve never had this with an ex. Usually once it’s over I never look back. I wish I could just shake this off.

I also have fears over my ‘picker’ I’ve recently found out my mum is a narc with BPD so trauma bonds and being treated like shit WAS an acceptable behaviour for me.

I’ve done a lot of work on myself… but will be completely free once his energy is no longer in my sphere.

Anyway some five years after you’ve written your comment, a woman in the world (me) is grateful to have found it.

I hope you have experienced some healthy love/ sex in this time.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://fairytaleshadows.com/why-is-it-so-hard-to-get-over-a-narcissist/comment-page-1/#comment-6555">Cindy</a>.</p>
<p>I’m so glad you took the time to write your experience down. Mine is almost exactly the same and I haven’t seen such a similar experience.</p>
<p>From blocking the phone for two weeks, then unblocking him so he wouldn’t show up at my door. EXACTLY THE SAME!</p>
<p>Outside of the well-known abuse you wrote about e.g. gaslighting, you made another point that has me stuck with his energy some six months later… the sex! The admiration, the adoring me, desiring me, the amazing physical connection. But, like you, I was a plaything, an object.</p>
<p>The only thing that is keeping me really away is that I found out he raped a woman while we were together. I found this out a month or so after I broke it off for the millionth time. He had raped me many times and showed up in my bedroom etc but there’s that self-doubt of ‘did that happen’ they have so well engrained in us.</p>
<p>Even though he committed such a heinous crime I still sexually yearn for him but also want to punch him in the face… even at the same time. Which is absolutely crazy… yet that’s what they do, they bring out the worst in us.</p>
<p>I find it hard to release his grasp (energy) from my life. I’ve never had this with an ex. Usually once it’s over I never look back. I wish I could just shake this off.</p>
<p>I also have fears over my ‘picker’ I’ve recently found out my mum is a narc with BPD so trauma bonds and being treated like shit WAS an acceptable behaviour for me.</p>
<p>I’ve done a lot of work on myself… but will be completely free once his energy is no longer in my sphere.</p>
<p>Anyway some five years after you’ve written your comment, a woman in the world (me) is grateful to have found it.</p>
<p>I hope you have experienced some healthy love/ sex in this time.</p>
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		Comment on Divorcing a Narcissist: How They Use the &#8220;System&#8221; by Paulina		</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Nov 2024 05:08:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Excellently written!]]></description>
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		Comment on A Letter to the Narcissist Who Destroyed Me by Tracy		</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2024 21:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Can someone not recover from serious life-damaging effects caused by a narcissist?

2 years later no contact and I&#039;m an empty shell existing day to day.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Can someone not recover from serious life-damaging effects caused by a narcissist?</p>
<p>2 years later no contact and I&#8217;m an empty shell existing day to day.</p>
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		Comment on How to Get Over a Narcissist: 2 Must-Do Steps by Malwina		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Malwina]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Aug 2024 17:08:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://fairytaleshadows.com/how-to-get-over-a-narcissist/comment-page-1/#comment-22337&quot;&gt;M.&lt;/a&gt;.

Wow! Its like we both have been with the same person! Unbelievable... I keep wondering, obviously i am confused if my current boyfriend is a narcissist. But i exoerience the same actions like you have. We are long distance and we met once. After that all hell broke loose, i didnt recognize who is this person i fell in love with... I am so scared and confused to go no contact... But he became so cold and distant i asked many times what is wrong or what happened. All he says its nothing is wrong, he is busy/tired with work and sometimes needs some space and that i look for his mistakes and want to fight all the time... And then he blames me for everything... And then he dissapears for hours or days. No text, no phone call, yet telling me nothing is wrong.... I feel like i am losing my mind....]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://fairytaleshadows.com/how-to-get-over-a-narcissist/comment-page-1/#comment-22337">M.</a>.</p>
<p>Wow! Its like we both have been with the same person! Unbelievable&#8230; I keep wondering, obviously i am confused if my current boyfriend is a narcissist. But i exoerience the same actions like you have. We are long distance and we met once. After that all hell broke loose, i didnt recognize who is this person i fell in love with&#8230; I am so scared and confused to go no contact&#8230; But he became so cold and distant i asked many times what is wrong or what happened. All he says its nothing is wrong, he is busy/tired with work and sometimes needs some space and that i look for his mistakes and want to fight all the time&#8230; And then he blames me for everything&#8230; And then he dissapears for hours or days. No text, no phone call, yet telling me nothing is wrong&#8230;. I feel like i am losing my mind&#8230;.</p>
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		Comment on How EMDR Therapy Can Help with Narcissistic Abuse by Anne		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anne]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Aug 2024 16:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As you wrote in the article, narcissistic abuse doesn’t stem from one, big event that you can conjure up and think about during a therapy session. So I wonder what were you sharing/thinking about while doing the emdr sessions? I am also intrigued by the idea of releasing the positive memories, I am trying to leave an abusive relationship but I feel held down and even manipulated by the good memories. They make me feel like I am inventing the bad memories and all the horrible things I feel while being in this relationship.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As you wrote in the article, narcissistic abuse doesn’t stem from one, big event that you can conjure up and think about during a therapy session. So I wonder what were you sharing/thinking about while doing the emdr sessions? I am also intrigued by the idea of releasing the positive memories, I am trying to leave an abusive relationship but I feel held down and even manipulated by the good memories. They make me feel like I am inventing the bad memories and all the horrible things I feel while being in this relationship.</p>
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		Comment on The Emotional Hell of Going No Contact with a Narcissist by Lisa		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lisa]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2024 20:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wow <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/15.0.3/72x72/1f622.png" alt="😢" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />
I’m all of this right now. After 33 years with a narcissistic husband I am raw, confused and broken but FINALLY Free. Thank you for this article. God Bless <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/15.0.3/72x72/2764.png" alt="❤" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow 😢<br />
I’m all of this right now. After 33 years with a narcissistic husband I am raw, confused and broken but FINALLY Free. Thank you for this article. God Bless ❤️</p>
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		Comment on Trouble in Paradise: Why Narcissists Ruin Vacations by Vesta		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vesta]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 03:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Omg, I don&#039;t think people who are in their clear mind would ever agree to travel with something like this. Normally, when you know they are narcs, you run for the hills. I did travel with one (not knowing she was one), that was trip into hell (2nd version), I got abandoned, scammed for money and abused tremendously. Came back with broken heart and PTSD.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Omg, I don&#8217;t think people who are in their clear mind would ever agree to travel with something like this. Normally, when you know they are narcs, you run for the hills. I did travel with one (not knowing she was one), that was trip into hell (2nd version), I got abandoned, scammed for money and abused tremendously. Came back with broken heart and PTSD.</p>
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