I love that you also took the path of love and compassion. This is my road also.

It is so damn good to be able to relate to people and no longer just suffer for my fix of the girl I latched onto in hopes that she would save me.

The irony is all of the attempts to ruin me ended up saving me. It’s funny that I appreciate what she did for me unwittingly and still love her for that. Sometimes I still wish I could have returned the favor, but these days can maintain boundaries to protect myself from the narcs that I attract like moths to a flame.

I respect your will to fight and come back better instead of becoming a narc yourself. The void causes both scenarios. The real difference is some sink into the victim mentality and the ego takes over and some take back their control and become survivors. You were not forced you rose up and started making the hard choices give yourself credit for that all the way. It’s a long hard road and you deserve to be proud for kicking the most insidious of addictions.