And when the mask no longer works, what is left? Nothing. Just shame, rage, and silence. When people walk away from a narcissist in this state, it doesn’t register as a loss. It registers as betrayal. Not because they loved you deeply, no, but because they believed you belonged to them.
You were their mirror, their puppet, their toy, their proof of worth, their extension. So when you finally gather the strength to leave, you do not just exit. You defect, in their mind. You turn into the mortal enemy. They do not sit with grief. They don’t ask, “What did I do wrong?”
They ask, “How could you do this to me after everything I did for you?” Classic. And what they really mean is, “After all the control I had over you.” Your departure becomes their final, final humiliation. It confirms what they fear most: that they are not godlike, not invincible, not needed.
And that is what seals the collapse because the very people they used as scaffolding have walked away. And now the entire structure crashes down loudly, painfully, and without anyone there to watch or care. They’re left in the ruins of their illusion, and that is a part no one ever sees.
The Quiet Unraveling
Another thing is that the narcissist’s collapse is not the dramatic spectacle people expect. It is a quiet, private unraveling of a war waged behind a smile, a death of a self that was never real to begin with. And when it happens, they’re not surrounded by comfort or grace. They’re alone, with nothing but echoes of the power they once stole, the people they once used, and the love they never learned how to feel.
You may be healing. You may be rising. But they are trapped in a loop that only goes in circles. That is the real collapse, not loud or explosive, just endless. And that, my dear survivor, is their worst karma.
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