You have to make your wellbeing a priority. Whether that means breaking up with someone you care about, loving a family member from a distance, letting go of a friend, or removing yourself from a situation that feels painful — you have every right to leave and create a safer space for yourself.
No one is guaranteed, or entitled to, relationship success. However, we give ourselves the greatest chance of that when we know ourselves to the best degree possible. Including all the ugly stuff.
Gaslighting is essentially psychological warfare, causing the victims of malignant narcissists to continually question their own reality.
Gemini: Your ideal match is someone witty and with a thirst for exploring. You’re excited by the thought of someone you can have unlimited adventures with.
The more narcissistic a man, the more he attracts giving, empathic women, who feel good seeing the needs of those around them met.
It’s vitally important to be honest with yourself so that you don’t end up feeling like a victim, and so that you have less of a chance of repeating this in a future relationship.
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?
“There is a very thin line between self-centered and self-empowered, and our generation that is right in the middle of this technological revolution shouldn’t be so quickly dismissed as the former.”
A girl who travels in the end will never be kept. But if you understand her well enough, she’ll always be by your side. She will have forgotten where her home is in this world – but you might just make her feel like the closest thing to feeling at home.
I think many of us have been so afraid to be self oriented and be called selfish for most of our lives that we have made a habit for living for our world and other people, and self sacrificed our real dreams.
I choose myself. I choose myself because I’m the only guaranteed one to do the job correctly. I choose myself for all the times someone made me merely an option, not a priority.
Much of the media has attempted to discuss the alt-right/African American racial dynamic by taking an academic approach. This interview takes attacks the issue at a more common sense angle.
Do you see science professors getting on their feed saying “Chris has 2 kids and is about to finish his thesis on string theory, what’s your excuse?” You don’t, because they’re not raging douches with an inflated sense of how important their pursuit is to mankind.
When emotionally abused women ask “Do emotionally abusive men know they are abusive?” their preferred answers usually start with the words: “No, they don’t.”
