Reason 2: Energy Independence and Emotional Vampires
Narcissists are emotional vampires who suck the life out of people to fill up their empty core. They flit from relationship to relationship, leaving devastation in their wake, grabbing what they want and discarding the rest. But God or the universe has a way of evening up these scales. You were that balance. You came into their lives as the one who would suck them dry, not because of manipulations or cruelty, but because you were yourself.
Why? Because your hunger for real connection, emotional intimacy, and true love made demands on them that they were not able to fulfill. Your expectations of how you were to be treated became their karma. While they wanted to suck you dry, you drained them involuntarily of something much bigger: their capacity to sustain illusions. Your persistent truthfulness caused them to have to work increasingly harder at sustaining their false self. Your emotional requirements were the karmic debt payments that they could never quite pay.
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In the process, they were unwittingly demonstrating you lessons in energetic sovereignty. Their persistent efforts to leech your energy forced you to set spiritual boundaries you did not even realize you required. Their emotional vampirism taught you how to discern when a person was giving more than they were receiving. Their unwillingness to return your emotional investments taught you lessons about how relationships must have an energetic equilibrium.
That energy sucking of theirs caused you some pain, and that wasn’t nothing. That was some kind of training. You learned how to guard your energy, identify the energy vampires right away, and never again provide more than they give. Even though they were your karma, making them deal with their emotional hunger, they were educating you, unwittingly, on how to be energetically independent.
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