And oh, they feel it. They may never admit it, but they sense it when those chains snap, when you stop needing their approval, when you stop begging for crumbs of affection. They feel that absence like a deep hole in their world. And here’s the truth they can’t swallow: when you rise, they watch. When you start to glow again, they squint in disbelief. And when you begin to love yourself more than you ever loved their illusion of you, they panic. They always thought you’d stay trapped, that your worth was tied to their twisted validation, that you couldn’t live without them. But now they’re watching you walk away, and the realization sinks in: you were never their supply; you were the sunrise they never deserved. And now that light is gone, and they know it.
But here’s the harshest truth they’ll never want to face: they never truly knew you—not your heart, not your strength, not your story—because they never cared to know. They didn’t want to understand you; they wanted to use you, to take from you. They wanted to feed off your light as if it were theirs to consume. Every time you showed them your true self, they saw it as an injury—not because you hurt them, but because the truth always threatens the counterfeit.
See, narcissists don’t want the real you; they want a character, a role. Whether it’s someone to adore them, someone to care for them, or someone to play their twisted games, they’ll assign you a title and expect you to perform forever—without question, without complaint. And if you dare to express pain, if you dare to show your needs, your boundaries, they make you feel like an enemy. You’re not allowed to be human in their eyes; you’re meant to be permanent—an anchor they can return to whenever it suits them, no matter how many times they’ve broken you.
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