Can I trust Anyone After a Narcissistic Relationship?

Self-preservation in a narcissistic relationship.

Betrayal blindness is not allowing yourself to see what is going on, to connect the dots, or to fully engage with reality, because if you did, the information would threaten your relationship with the person who is most important to you.

What about forgiveness?

The Creation and Sustaining of the Narcissistic Family System, the Godfather model.

Trusting Yourself After Hidden Abuse

Three strategies a narcissist uses: Projection, Savior, Victim. The best defense is no defense.

Financial abuse is insidious and incremental.

Say “No More” to the Gaslighting of Hidden Abuse.

Should I Stay or Should I Go? Not a one-size fits all answer.

they become less interested in exploring who they want to be and more interested in learning how others want them to be.

When I heard the words “lost in the abuse” that was my answer to this last question. I was lost in the incremental, insidious abuse because I was holding up a house of cards. I was trying to keep my family intact. It wasn’t until I was able to get out of the toxic cycle that I began to see things more clearly.