What to Expect When You Break Up With a Narcissist
Breakups are never easy, but when the other person is a narcissist, it can be a lot more complicated and painful.
I’ve been through my share of breakups, including a divorce involving children, and the hardest one was when I broke up with a narcissist. Narcissists don’t want to lose their “supply” and that makes breakups ugly.
For me, it felt like a nightmare. I couldn’t bring myself to tell anyone how I felt about him or our relationship. I was miserable. Looking back, I realize there was even a part of me that was scared of him. I couldn’t have consciously told you I was scared or why, but it was there.
When I finally freed myself of him and the relationship, my entire life changed for the better. But it wasn’t an instant thing, and there were a lot of bumps along the way.
There were some things that I expected when I broke up with him, but there were a lot of things that I didn’t.
It might not stick the first time
I was with my narcissist for about two years. The first time I tried to break up with him? About two weeks after we became exclusive (roughly two months after our first date). Thus started the cycle of me trying to break up…
