Tag: getting over a narcissist

Understanding how to get over a narcissist is a lot easier than actually doing it.  However, before we can do it, we must first become aware of the path to complete recovery.  It starts with a question about what is keeping us tied to the narcissist. To get over a narcissist, we must ask ourselves, “How is it possible to miss someone who has damaged us and devastated our lives so carelessly?” Why Getting Over a Narcissist is So Hard It’s possible to miss someone who has abused us because love-bombing is abuse too. When our partners love-bombed us, it...

By presenting to us what feels like two completely different people, we can become snared in the narcissist’s battle for control over our perception of reality. This is where cognitive dissonance begins. It is nothing less than mind control and it must be broken. Want to learn about the five stages of leaving a narcissist? See the end of this post for information about how to read a free preview of my book, which including the first chapter and the pathological love relationship checklist. What is Cognitive Dissonance? The idea behind cognitive dissonance is that people will feel so much anxiety...

Where are you in your relationship with a narcissist? Are you in a half-alive state in that shadowy area beyond the relationship periphery, slowly smothering in their death grip where they won’t release you and give you back your life but neither will they reel you in and breathe into you the golden spectacle, the private delusion that existed only for the two of you? Are they killing you by putting your own hands around your throat and telling you it’s for your own good? Or is it all over– and are you shivering in the aftermath, trying to understand...