7 Things You Only Do With a Narcissist (Never with a Good Person)
Narcissistic relationships distort your reality so deeply that you eventually forget the difference between what is healthy and what is narcissism. You reach a point where you just don’t know which is which anymore, because you’ve been completely convinced that you are the sole problem. You’ve been trained to believe that your own reactions make you crazy and that you’re making things up—when every single issue is entirely your fault. Today, we’re pulling back the curtain on this confusion and looking at the major things a healthy relationship never demands, but a narcissistic one absolutely forces you to give up.
If you’re in the thick of a narcissistic relationship, your baseline for what is normal shifts completely out of place. You’ll start accepting behaviors that will deeply shock anyone looking in from the outside, because your reality has been twisted slowly over time. To help you break out of this mental fog, let’s look at this point by point.
Number one
A healthy relationship never demands that you think you are completely crazy and just making things up. In a healthy connection, you’re always encouraged to trust your own eyes and ears. When you see something happen, you can talk about it openly with your partner without any fear of retaliation. A narcissist, however, demands that you doubt your own senses to protect their lies. They change the facts so aggressively that it feels like someone is painting a white wall jet black right in front of your face while screaming at you that it has always been white. They require you to surrender your perception to their fake version of reality. Over time, you stop trusting your own mind entirely—which is exactly where they want you. A person who cannot trust their own thoughts can never find the strength to stand up and walk away.
Number two
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