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The Guilt is Killing You
Stop Punishing Yourself and Give Yourself Some Grace
It’s not normal or healthy to feel guilty and responsible for situations that are not your fault. After a relationship with a person with narcissistic personality disorder finally ends, there is so much cognitive dissonance caused by chronic gaslighting that it is impossible to get your bearings. You are shaken to the core with your identity in unrecognizable pieces. Perhaps you did things you never thought you were capable of doing, and perhaps those things hurt the people you loved. You certainly did things to harm yourself, over and over throughout the entire relationship with the narcissist.
It was not your fault. There are many comex reasons why we did what we did, why we stayed so long, why we allowed ourselves to be humiliated and disrespected, yet we held on to the mentally disordered person.
And through it all, the narcissist blame -shifted every single thing that they could think of onto you and only you, thus completely absolving themselves from any guilt or accountability. Boundaries and borders were breached as they assaulted you time and again, maybe not with their fists but with their words and deeds that had the power to slay.
Below the veil of consciousness, we are wounded children, marinating in the pain of our pasts. We…
