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I love myself. Truly and always, I love myself. And for the first time in a long time, I am putting myself first.

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I am the truth, your karma, the revolt — I am the resistance, the pieces you tried to keep shattered, coming back together again.

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Survivors have to regain the certainty that the reason they experienced such a pathological reaction was because they were so powerful in the first place.

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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?

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Look for these warning signs and spare yourself the suffering—if the guy you’re falling in love with exhibits many of these traits, you should run, not walk, away from him.

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Gaslighting is perhaps one of the most insidious manipulative tactics out there because it works to distort and erode your sense of reality; it eats away at your ability to trust yourself and inevitably disables you from feeling justified in calling out abuse and mistreatment.

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You have probably felt lost on the shifting ground of words and emotions and claims and counterclaims that the BS-er-abuser spins at will. It feels as if you have left the world of rational people and rational thinkers – because you have.