They don’t give in the way you did, and soon they are faced with the same rejection, failure, and abandonment they so easily handed out to others. The narcissist’s world starts to crumble under its weight. What hurts them the most is that there is no one left, no one to blame, no scapegoat, no one left to carry their excuses or justify their behavior. They can no longer play the victim. They can’t point fingers anymore. They are stuck in the wreckage of their own making, surrounded by the mess they created the very people they used and discarded, the ones they thought would never leave, are gone. And when they finally sit down in that silence with nothing to distract them, they will be forced to feel what they put others through.
Number 5: Forgiveness crushes them
Your anger is what the narcissist loves the most; they thrive on it. If your anger remains unprocessed, it gives them a sick kind of satisfaction. But when you let go, it sends chills down their spine. When you forgive whatever that means to you without asking for anything in return, when you let go and walk away, something inside them breaks. Because letting go doesn’t just mean you have to justify what they did to you or accept that it’s okay and take them back.
It means you feel nothing but indifference and say, “I don’t want revenge. I don’t need an apology.” You are not chasing that closure anymore. You are not looking over your shoulder anymore. And in their world, that’s not supposed to happen. In their mind, you are supposed to be stuck either in hate or in longing. But here you are, neither angry nor attached, just done. And that quiet, calm “done” cuts deeper than any screaming match ever could. It tells them they can’t get back the version of you that once believed in them, that once loved them, that tried. That part is gone, and they can now feel it.
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