Down the Rabbit Hole

To enter into a situation or begin a process or journey that is particularly strange, problematic, difficult, complex, or chaotic, especially one that becomes increasingly so as it develops or unfolds.

A letter from a narcissist to his freshly discarded victim. Caution: The following contents are based on actual real-life dialogue and may trigger some individuals.

“In response to your incessant requests and ceaseless entreaties for closure, I am compelled to respond as both a gentleman and an elevated being. But I must ask, how far down the rabbit hole are you willing to go? This is a cautionary admonishment because normal reason and expectations for how things will flow, relate, and turn out should not be expected if the particular something under discussion is pursued.

You have been warned.

From the very beginning, I told you the truth about me. You chose to ignore it thinking you could change me or fix me. Silly girl. You never had a chance.

I told you I would never give up my girlfriends, that I didn’t see the value in monogamy, that the ones who were behind you all complained that I was missing human emotion and had a cold, cruel heart if any heart at all. I asked you what you thought about that — how there might be something absent in me that caused a swath of broken hearts and misery in my path. You…