Leave Him
I know what they say about me. I always know. I know they crowd around, earnest expressions etched across their made-up faces, their mouths flapping as they spout their supposed wisdom to you.
“We will be here for you. You have always got us.”
“If you are unhappy there must be something wrong.”
“It is right to be treated like this.”
“You are not the person you used to be.”
Who are they to claim what is right for you? Have they held you on that cliff-top with the foaming ocean churning beneath us, the cool Atlantic air brushing past us as a canopy of stars hung overhead? Have they looked into your eyes and seen the pain that I know was there long before I came along, a pain that I have shouldered for you? Where were they when you called at 3am and asked that I tell you a story because you had just had a horrible nightmare? I do not recall them soothing you and keeping those night demons at bay. Do they know you inside out? I think not. They do know every each of you in the way that I do. Each delicate piece of you that I have kissed and caressed, so there is no place about your person that has not been embraced by me. They have not done that have they? Have they held your long tresses back and rubbed your back as you spewed those cocktails back up and groaned about what how much money you have just regurgitated? No. It was I who rode to your rescue as they wove their drunken way to another bar. They do not know your favourite ten songs and I will wager more than they earn that they have no inclination that you are frightened of geese.
Oh I know alright. I know about their messages which they send you. I have seen them and it is fortunate that I have so I can spare you from the green-eyed lies. They do not have what we have and nor will they ever. One cannot blame them for their wretched jealousy, they are just flesh and blood, but are they your true friends when they seek to pour such sedition in your ears when my back is turned? Ought they not to be happy for you, delighted that you want to spend so much time with me. Do they not see that your sadness on occasions is borne out of your deep and perfect love for me, that such is our connection that you justifiably feel upset when you irk me or irritate me. I know you do not mean to do it and that is why I have not pushed you aside like those other pretenders who came before you. You understand what it is to have found someone who fulfils all your hopes and your dreams and you understand my pain when you sleight me or let me down. Yet, since you are such a good person, my upset becomes your upset but they do not see it. I suppose if I was charitable I might ascribe their short-sightedness to the fact that they lack your special qualities. Only you understand me and only you have that deep-seated bond with me so that what I feel resonates with you. That is who you are and who they are not.
I heard them caution you about moving in together, their comments about “undue haste” and “it is too early” and “he wants you where he can see you.” Well, why should I not. Why should I not have my number one fan with me as often as I can? Why would you want to be anywhere else?Why would I not want to have someone so pretty and wonderful as you besides me. Does not every winner want to show off his trophy? Of course.
I know they have cautioned you about my temper and urged you to depart, claiming that it will only get worse and you will suffer. They mistake passion for temper, but then they would wouldn’t they, it suits their selfish purposes to try and bring down what you and I have. People usually do that when they do not understand something. It is a predictable and regrettable response. As for their remarks about me controlling you, how can that be so? I chose you for so many things and chief amongst those attributes was the attraction of your strong mind and keen intelligence. So what if I suggest what you might wear and how you should do your hair, I am taking an interest. Would you prefer it if I never commented on how you looked or made no suggestion as to what suited you? I know a couple of them think I stop you seeing them, but that is just more of their campaign of slander. Perhaps it is selfish of me, but the times I have asked you to cancel plans to see some of your friends was only because I wanted to be with you. Perhaps I sounded firmer than I intended, I suppose that might happen when you spend all day working hard to support a relationship, it does make one tired. Do not be concerned by their observations that I make all the decisions about what we do, where we go and how our money is spent. I am happy to bear such a burden for us both and you have admitted, have you not, that I do know more than you about certain things. I am only doing what is right for you, for me and most of all for us. Of course, they do not bother to gain possession of all the facts. They would much rather whisper untruths in your ear based on hearsay and ill-informed perspectives. I suppose that is a price I have to pay for loving you so totally, so completely and so perfectly.
Still, I know they urge you to leave me. I am no fool. I have overheard their comments, heard what they say when they telephone you and seen the messages. I know they want you to depart and escape me. Well, do it. Go. Leave everything that we have built up together. Leave my guiding hand and perhaps someone more grateful will come along. I do not want that but why should my largesse and love be abused in this way? Why should I pour my all into an empty hole? Go it. Pack your bags and leave. I will not stop you. See. If I controlled you would I not be begging you to stay and pleading with you to ignore them? If I pulled your strings as they accuse me of doing so would I not be threatening you now with all manner of terrible consequences if you had the audacity to step through that door and way from me? But I have not and I do not, because you already know don’t you? That is why I chose you. But I shall not stand in your way. If it really is awful being with someone who only ever has your best interests at heart and who loves you perfectly, albeit sometimes clumsily and erratically, then leave me. Just leave.
I know you won’t though. I know.
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There can be 1 million people telling somebody to leave the other one and it wont happen. the heart brings them together, the heart and the slower beatings, the loss of temperature, the loss of smiles, ….. brings them apart.
Its touching to read…..
I can attest to that Jessica. My doctors have suggested that increased cortisol levels are responsible for the thyroid problem I now have and also may have caused by son to be born 5 weeks premature and have been a factor in the difficulties he has now.
So my advice now would be “Run for the hills!!” and protect yourself by never looking back.
‘Which one?’… LOL my ex-N probably had 3 or 4 women he communicates with on a daily basis…(if not more)…and he is married. I feel bad for his wife. I wonder if she has a grasp or knowledge of who she married. I cannot image she has a brain left in her head. Not my monkeys, not my circus.
How is your current appliance running? Is she still adoring you?
Which one?
Exactly..which one? Lol
Primary. Unless she left you.
Nobody leaves HG these days.
I’d say yay…except that means she is the one who still is in the seduction period…or the one in the hell known as devaluation? Maybe she is the one who will tame the creature…in that case a resounding yay.
You chose an illusion…a mirage of an oasis in the desert that is your life…the water or fuel tank looked so quenching when you needed water or fuel. Better luck in the future.
“Tell him, boy, bye” al la Beyoncé
I agree Indy and with you Clarece . I can’t wait for the fog to disapear .
Hang in there!!!!! The longer you are in no contact, the closer you are to getting your mind back!!!!
I just read an article on how narcissistic behavior effects the brain. It leaves the victim in a constant state of anxiety and confusion. Being under that stress causes release of cortisol. Its time folks. We are being harmed physiologically. All because of a person who can’t feel and we tried to Love them.
It even goes beyond that. The rush of the cortisol forms addictive peptides adhering to your cells and when you get a respite, a Hoover or the heat turns back on from the ice, you get a flood of happy endorphins sweeping through you from the wave of relief washing over you. Last year, when I discovered this blog, I was in a complete fog of despair, feeling these addictive reactions happening in my body and not knowing how to explain it. I was obsessed about finding answers to it. I am convinced, these relationships are based on the toxic yet intoxicating energies exchanged between the Narc and his Supply. This is not a relationship with friendship based as the foundation or companionship. It is all about primal, basic attraction, energy and instinct. You literally feel like you need to enroll in a 28 -day treatment program to really start ripping yourself away from it.
Exactly how I felt Clarece! HG, what is your thought on this?
Yes!!!!
It is very much a bio-psycho-social cycle….the emotional/psychological abuse impacts the body and mind, which may be vulnerable already from past abuse (like by MatriNarcs and PatriNarcs and such), genetic sensitivity one may be born with, and societal denial of emotional abuse. Combine this and you have the perfect storm for vulnerability of developing a personality disorder or being a target for abuse. Very complex and intricate stuff.
The anxiety, the craving, the fog, the loss of attention span and critical thinking, the fight-flight response is on over drive. The use of intermittent reinforcement (push-pull) the abuser engages in causes all sorts of neurotransmitters to be altered (dopamine, serotonin, etc)…it is addictive. And, this is why NO CONTACT is soooo vital. We need abstinence from that rush and depletion effect. It took about 3-4 weeks for me to feel a hell of a lot better in that sense. It takes longer with regard to the long term trauma effects emotionally and in memories (but that’s another discussion).
Indy, you are right about turning a corner at about 4 weeks. This past year, JN’s fatal flaw was extending his silent treatments into the 4-6 week range. After a few of those, I don’t get near the rush from the push / pull as I was for 3 years when he’s withdraw for 2-3 weeks. What a painful reminder the roller coaster is.
RUN!
This is all kinds of twisted…has my gut twisted too.
Strike at the core HG…doing his work for him. Shame on you lol
Don’t think twice! Just LEAVE!
Or kick him in the. Small sack. 8dk what tiS is…but I do.