Living My New Reality
A huge part of this lesson for me...I had to learn to let go.I attached myself to the good I saw in people and held onto it tooth and nail.How could I let go of someone I loved?THAT was not even a thought in my head...EVER!!! That was the way I lived my entire life.I was determined to hang on
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Healing from Narcissistic Abuse is like grieving a death...your own.I count the entire 'relationship' as part of my healing process as well...because the 'nonsense' started in the first month...the rest was just further eroding of my emotional wellbeing.Start to finish almost 6 years of a very tough journey.2 years of a very emotionally damaging experience and almost 4 years in
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Does a label really matter...I've spent a lot of time researching a mental disorder because I needed to understand what I went through and why I went through such an experience.It has been an eye opening experience, an awakening experience, a soul healing experience...one that I do not regret at all...from start to end...but only in hind sight.I call it
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Sometimes we have to bear the consequences of other people's mistakes.That is a very hard pill to swallow.We ALL have been on either side of THAT fence.We may have been the one who made the mistake or we may be the one who are the recipient of the mistake or bad judgement call of others.All we can do is accept
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If you don't have a matching set of core values, morals, principles and beliefs between 2 people you could still have a relationship with them but it would be a constant struggle.You can't build anything on an uneven foundation.That would be living in an illusion of what you wish for something to be like.Idealization of an illusion.Believing in an illusion
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June 1stNarcissistic Abuse Awareness Day. A Narcissist should come with a Warning Label...like a Heat Missile. ☆Will Seek and Destroy☆ Or fizzle out trying... ~Paula Pearl~ One Billion of the World's population are afflicted with Narcissistic Personality Disorder. A Narcissistic Abuser is a nasty wake up call from blissful ignorance...a tough lesson to learn in the cruelest of ways. Narcissistic Personality
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Actions ALWAYS speak louder than words.We ALL love to hear sweet words, kind words, loving words, reassuring words.There is a place to express feelings with words but they have to be backed up by actions...otherwise they are just words...words are a dime a dozen.If your words do not match your actions you are trying to manipulate the situation.Emotionally manipulative people's
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Suppressed emotions...Suppressing emotions over a lifetime turns our minds into a toxic self imprisonment.This behavior is perpetuated in relationships.People who are unable to feel, express, articulate their emotions will suppress them out of necessity, fear of expression or habit for self preservation.This may be a learned behavior as a child...usually with parents who feel and speak for the child or
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(I found this very interesting explanation of a very common phenomenon that we all experience to some degree at different points in our lives.I did not write it.I took factual pertinent excerpts and added my own to it) Limerence is a state of mind which results from a romantic attraction to another person and typically includes obsessive thoughts and fantasies
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I wrote this post last year... 5 years ago, today, I was presented with a Sliding Door moment...a fork in the road...I could go right or I could go... wrong...I picked wrong and walked straight into Hell...and then...kept walking around in the darkness...with my eyes closed... hitting into the walls. It was the best wrong move I had ever made.Wrong
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