Number 3: They Cannot Truly Defeat You
Number three, they secretly hate that they cannot truly defeat you. Narcissists are obsessed with control. That is what all their games, manipulation, love bombing, devaluation, and discard cycles are all about, right? It’s about power. They want to break you. They want to shape your reality, alter it. They want to make you question your worth, instincts, and your sense of self, but they fail at doing so. For a while, they may succeed.
Many survivors of narcissistic relationships go through a phase, the period where they feel shattered, lost, broken, confused, and traumatized. But here’s the thing that drives narcissists insane. They cannot truly defeat you. Not fully and not permanently. Because, even when you’re broken, listen to this, something inside you remains untouched. Your true self, your core, some part of it that is whole, sacred, and indestructible.
And, over time, that part begins to lead you back to yourself. You heal. You learn and grow. You rise. Narcissists know this. They know eventually that’s going to happen. They feel it. That’s why they often escalate when they sense you pulling away. That’s their predatory intuition or regaining your strength. That’s why they launch revenge campaigns, stalk you, hoover, or try to sabotage your progress, because, deep down, deep down, they know they have lost control.
They know they have failed to truly break you, and that is intolerable to them. They secretly hate your resilience. They hate your ability to rise from the ashes like a phoenix. They hate that, after all their efforts, they could not steal your essence. And the beautiful part is, the more you reclaim your power, the more powerless they feel. And that is one of the deepest hatreds they carry inside.
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