
07/25/2025
If you are a survivor of narcissistic abuse, you understand this back and forth cycle of emotional abuse very clearly.
You deserve a healthy love where someone does not push and pull you away!đź’—
In the beginning, the narcissist is so into you. You are walking on cloud nine. But after three or four months, you start noticing things. Things that make you want to run. They apologize and you go back.
Or you don’t say anything, and stuff it inside, because you think maybe you were imagining things or exaggerating. But even in those moments, you are not running towards a partner. You’re being cautious and you are to make your narc comfortable. You stop bringing up problems because when you do, there’s a blow up …and now you are in the cycle of abuse.
Stable relationships may have up-and-downs, but they are not daily or weekly thoughts of, “I need to get out of this… “
While it is normal for all of us to question ourselves & our partners from time to time, there are so many red flags that make you want to run from the narc daily.
And as we all know, eventually you’re making a plan to escape, and your initial instincts to run away were right all along…