Many people in relationships with narcissists, psychopaths, borderlines, histrionics and other personality disordered abusers often find themselves living by a set of rules, spoken and unspoken, determined by their abuser. Narcissists don’t force their victims to live by these rules. Adult victims comply hoping to preserve the relationship for a variety of typically misguided, unhealthy […]
Love Bombing is a Red Flag
Love bombing is, in and of itself, a Red Flag. Emotionally healthy adults don’t love bomb one another at the beginning of a relationship. There may be intense attraction or infatuation, but that’s different from love bombing. Love bombing is a term borrowed from the recruiting techniques of cults. The narcissist, borderline, histrionic or psychopath […]
Healing from Narcissistic Abuse: Stages of Grief Rumination
Who does something like that? How can she say she loves me and wants the relationship to work and then do that? He says he doesn’t want a committed relationship, but keeps calling. It doesn’t make sense. How can she have changed so much? When we first met she told me I was the most […]