Why A Good Wife In A Narcissistic Relationship Is Always A Sick Wife
You are the wife whose cortisol levels became so high that although you are in your 30s, you look and feel like you are 55. Cortisol is the stress hormone designed to save your life when you are running from a predator in the wild. It pumps adrenaline through your veins, raises your blood pressure, and shuts down digestion so you can escape danger. It is supposed to last for ten minutes. But when you are married to a narcissist, you never escape the predator, do you?
You live with the predator. You share a bed with the predator. You eat breakfast across the table from the predator. Your body is constantly flooded with massive waves of stress hormones 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It is like driving a car at 100 miles an hour with the emergency brake fully engaged. Eventually, the engine begins to smoke and the parts start breaking down.
You are the good wife who has never expressed pain with words, but now your gray hair, dark under-eye circles, and deep, sudden facial wrinkles express that pain for you. You look in the mirror in the morning and barely recognize the woman staring back at you. You remember the bright, radiant girl who used to laugh freely, whose skin used to glow, and who had so much bounce in her step. Now, that vibrant girl has been completely replaced by an exhausted, hollow ghost who looks decades older than her driver’s license says.
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