Coupledom is often lauded as the primary conduit for happiness. New research, however, suggests that single women are no less fulfilled than those who are coupled. In fact, in some cases, they are happier.
I stopped letting other people walk over me. I stopped giving out second chances to people who have made it clear that I am not a priority.
The truth is that unless a person has experienced life with a narc first-hand, they will never understand exactly what you are going through.
Online dating gives malignant narcissists and sociopaths access to numerous sources of what is known as narcissistic supply – people who can provide them with praise, admiration, and resources – without any need for any form of investment, commitment or accountability.
Verbal abuse is scars that you cannot see, but are just as hard, if not harder, to heal.
“When you find yourself not telling friends or family about things your SO has done/the way you’re being treated because ‘they wouldn’t understand’ and you don’t want to make your SO look bad.”
Falsehoods about parents always being loving and having our best interests at heart simply do not cut it when it comes to manipulative, toxic and abusive parents.
Gain self-awareness about your choices in partners and their willingness to meet your emotional and personal needs.
INFJs are the rarest personality type and tend to be the natural targets of emotional predators. However, while INFJs are extremely compassionate, these types are ones you should never mess with. Outwardly, INFJs may not be as overly bold and aggressive as other personality types, but when they bring the reckoning, they bring it with full force.
“You can not hate someone you first did not love. You hate them because you loved them, and you lost them.”
Anxiety is often the way our inner child lets us know that we are abandoning ourselves rather than loving ourselves. There are a number of major causes of anxiety, and all of them are related to various forms of self-abandonment.
“We connected in a way I didn’t think was possible & he made me feel something I had never felt.”
I’ve always been seen as difficult — even from the beginning. And I’m sick of being expected by society to bow my head and be quiet.
Sometimes people cling to unhealthy relationships not because they lack confidence or have bad taste. When you meet the right person suddenly you have something to lose.
Do you often engage in conversations with your narcissist that leave you feeling like you were talking to a brick wall – or worse, maybe leave you feeling like banging your head against a brick wall?
If you can’t trust the person sleeping next to you, honey, they’re your enemy.
They lack all empathy. In fact, they are incapable of seeing the world through other people’s eyes. They are only concerned with how other people affect them.
