07/01/2026
narcissistic relationships: he didn’t get worse. You got clearer. In the beginning you called it passion. Then you called it a phase. Then you called it your fault. In 10,000+ sessions I have watched that exact sentence evolve in real time, and it always ends the same way, with a woman finally saying “wait, this was always this.” The breadcrumbing, the silent treatment, the way he made you apologize for being hurt by him, none of that was new. You just ran out of ways to explain it away. That’s not you getting dramatic. That’s you waking up.
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