And then, what happens after they trigger you? Let’s look at a comment, and then, after they piss you off, they smile and walk away. Cowards. Someone else says they hide from the cruelty they inflict. That comment had 117 likes, so I’m guessing a lot of you agree. So now, as promised, let’s dig deeper into that pretending you don’t exist tactic. So I guess today is a day of sharing for me. There’s a story that I shared very early on when I started this channel, and a lot of you related to it—a really surprising number, if you ask me—because it was something very, very specific. And this relates back to pretending you don’t exist. This is a quick share, I promise. So when I was in this same relationship, multiple times we would be sitting on the couch watching television, and out of nowhere, this person would stand up, not say a word, turn off the television, turn off the light, and go to bed. And remember, we were sitting there together. And I feel like this is the ultimate way to pretend someone doesn’t exist, which actually to have them right there in front of you and just act like they’re not there. And it’s incredibly cowardly because the only way you can do this is if you have completely shut down emotionally. There’s no empathy here. There’s no compassion. There’s no kindness. There’s just manipulation, and there’s just control. And the way that they do this just serves to further their agenda of control.
So I hope that you can see, based on these tactics, that when someone behaves this way, it is very much coming from a place of fear. And I know when you’re in the thick of it, it’s easy to feel like they’re doing it because they’re so powerful and they’re so strong. But remember, the reason they’re behaving this way is because they’re afraid. And they’re afraid because they know they’re not good enough. They know that they’re not capable. They know that they are nothing without you. So even though they try to make you feel like you’re nothing without them, it’s very much the other way around.
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