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2021 Challenge: Friending My Inner Child
Paralyzed by fear, she won’t let go of our predator-persecutor
Narcopath: I am happy since I left you, and I’m glad I got out. For the past 16 years we were married, I was just afraid I’d be broke or alone, but I never really loved you.
Translation: I am delusional, maladapted, and guilty of revisionist history, blameshifting, and denial. I can’t give any value to our relationship because it might make me look bad for what I did to you.
Take-away: What you are seeing is the true nature of a Cluster B individual with their behavior on full blast with no fucks given.
Question: Why would a smart, compassionate, beautiful person stay with someone who is clearly incapable of being a decent human being and remain for years only to receive a steady dose of reward and punishment, gaslighting, exploitation, and humiliation?
Answer: The target of narcissistic or sociopathic abuse is often damaged in their own way which makes them cling tighter when a healthy individual would walk away or most likely get away and stay away.
